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
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We need to realise that WE ARE A MINORITY. Most people do not give a single shit about ads and go about their lives
I keep offering my partner a way out via either a pi hole or (my current setup) adguard. They literally don’t want it. Why? It doesn’t bother them and sometimes you have to watch the ads for perks in games. Even tried to show them that you can have per App rules etc.
But no. It’s not a big deal. Using any of their devices gives me an aneurysm, I keep forgetting how bad mobile ads and browser ads are. Smh
What do you use that allows you to set per app rules?
TrackerControl gives app-level control. It’s FOSS & available on F-droid.
I use adguard. Bought the app years ago and I couldn’t be happier. It’s especially great because some secure apps break with their traffic routed through it and it’s super easy to configure.
I used to have pi-hole setup and a housemate complained that he could no longer click on Google ads 🙄
Just use a custom list for them. Or just isolate them on a different vlan.
Wtf? I weep for humanity.
I’ve actually had useful stuff advertised to me on Facebook, not all ads are bad.
That’s why I don’t play mobile games at all :D
Yes, tech enthusiasts are a minority and most people are tech illiterate.
As someone who works in the tech industry. I can tell you people here are not tech illiterate, but most just dgaf about privacy when they can trade it in for convenience. That’s why most of them are okay with designing apps that have zero respect to user privacy and they see nothing wrong with it.