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.

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

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First time this happens to me. With a German protonvpn server.

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

Bot can automate views. It's why Youtube keeps trying to move towards "engagement". Comments, likes, etc, all require an account, which is an extra hurdle for bots.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Then I will they just doing half the work. They can just get the site account walled for that goal, not a half patch work of blocking VPN users.