Privacy

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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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What are your motives behind wanting to be private online? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Most of the time the reason that people want to be private is to stop mainstream tech companies from gathering their data to use for targeted ads. But I'm kind of cuirous to see what are others motives for wanting to be private online.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago

On the other hand there are people who claim anonymity is a bad thing because people use it to do bad things (to post racist, sexist, homophobic shit, for example). I agree with you though. I used to post to Usenet somewhat anonymously, could send emails through open servers, etc. and it was way preferable to the current situation of having to be registered to do every little thing. Oddly I never felt the need to be abusive to anyone. Almost as though anonymity didn't make me a bad person... Nah, that can't be right, surely.