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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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what made you get into internet privacy? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by Daniel_Deghaye@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

NFTs and (x)coin speculation really made a lot of people sour on cryptocurrency, fairly or unfairly.

There are legitimate uses for crypto, I don’t think Mastercard, Visa, or your bank need to know what size dildos you’re buying online. But people treating it like a high value stock instead of actual currency really hampered it’s wide adoption imo.

[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

You are so right about this... Unfortunately...

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 4 points 1 year ago

I use monero for this reason. It has actual usage as a currency and maintains a fairly stable value. Sure, it fluctuates, but it does so rather slowly compared to others. It doesnt drop 15+% overnight.