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
Be nice :)

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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is this a good idea for privacy?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Your instance knows

Your IP address
Your E-Mail (if provided
Your password (salted of course)
Your session type (browser, app, etc)
Your interactions (posts, comments, saved, upvotes, downvotes, etc
Your social graph (following and followers, etc)

Everyone in public knows

Your session type (optional)
Your interactions (posts (if set public), comments, saved (depending on service), upvotes, downvotes, boosts, etc)
Your social graph (may be optional depending on service)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

How is session type made available in the federation? I wasn't aware that was shared on the protocol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Im not sure, but on mastodon for example you will often see tusky, or web, etc at the bottom of post details. https://digitaldarkage.cc/@shortwavesurfer2009/110691099097120908

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You can disable it, in the settings. Still a feature which shouldn't be there in my opinion.

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