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.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to 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
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 :)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

The term cloud is commonly used for hosting on external data centers accessable via the internet for convenience. I can't see how having your mail hosted by protonmail is any different, they are "a cloud". With "does anybody user their services" I wanted to know about people on lemmy, I guess the proper word would be "someone".

it’s probably the first choice of people wanting to avoid big companies.

They have their own data centers so they can't really be that small. Also there are multiple thousands of e-mail hosting providers.