Privacy

31991 readers

672 users here now

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.

Some Rules

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 :)

Related communities

Chat rooms

[Matrix/Element]Dead
Discord

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

-132

Why I no longer use a VPN (most of the time) and nor should you - YouTube (youtu.be)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

69 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Alternative https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=pp-INfssWBo

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ok and if you don't trust anyone, you don't have any protection at all.

Personally I don't trust any big tech companies, naturally. But there are smaller vpn providers like Mullvad that are trustworthy. They are never American.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ok and if you don’t trust anyone, you don’t have any protection at all.

Correct. I assume I don't, so I'm always super-careful not to give away any information I don't need to give to begin with. Or I give fake information whenever possible, to pollute the well. For the rest, as the old saying goes, if it's on the internet, it's as good as public.

They are never American.

Agreed. If you have to trust a company with your privacy in any way, don't use an American company. It's not even their fault: they operate in a country that's fundamentally dangerous for your privacy.

My email provider is in Norway. for instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Not as bad as USA, but companies are required to keep visitor data for 6 months in Norway, and make it available to police on request. Running a no logs VPN in Norway is illegal.