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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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Do you think sometimes privacy practices of people at c/privacy or r/privacy communities are overparanoid or take things too far? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've had people tell me that this is (their words, not mine): "mental illness"

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Yes, privacy is very important, but I've seen also a lot of tin foil hats arround here which don't know really what is worth to protect and what only make browsing slower and more difficult. PEBCAK

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

It's the correct amount of paranoia. The issue is society has normalized completely not giving a shit about your own privacy to the point where any attempt at preserving it is seen as abnormal.

[–] DeuxChevaux@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

Once, someone sent me an Amazon link for baby nappies, and fool me clicked on it. Now Amazon showed boomer me baby nappies suggestions for the next six months. AI at its best... These things annoy me, so I try to avoid being tracked whenever reasonably possible.

OTOH, I am old and hope to not live long enough to experience any rogue government or whatever else persecuting me for having clicked on a baby nappies link years ago; so my threat model is short term only. I keep my privacy to a level, where it hopefully prevents as many annoyances as possible, but does not hamper what I am doing online too much. If I was younger, I'd likely do more.

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