Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

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Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
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Firefox added ad tracking and has already turned it on without asking you (mastodon.social)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

weirdly if you search "website advertising preferences" in the firefox setting search bar nothing comes up, you have to manually scroll to find it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

For everyone trying to find the setting— On my android phone, there's a setting called "data collection". Mine were already all off, so idk who it affects