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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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Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade (www.neowin.net)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't think people on this sub use it, but it's great news for us. The worse it gets the likelier people move on.

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[–] [email protected] 183 points 5 months ago (70 children)

Looks like Discord will do a Reddit in the near future.

I recommend switching to Matrix.

[–] [email protected] 125 points 5 months ago (11 children)

the problem isn't switching, the problem is making all the other people using It to switch too, not everyone cares about security or ads

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

There's also privacy issues with Matrix:

Account deletion on Discord: username becomes [deleted]
Account deletion on Matrix: will not delete username
GDPR-compliant account deletion on Matrix: will not delete username

Discord is also one (admittedly very lousy) company, while Matrix starts with the privacy issues and just gets worse

Edit x2: I can't place a parenthesis to save my life

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