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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.
Some Rules
- 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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You can assume that they don’t. Sadly you’ll be right most of the times. ._.
Even if you read the privacy policy, there is no guarantee that the company actually adheres to it.
If their GDPR / cookie dialog is showing the typical dark patterns of trying to get you to consent to data sharing and your ad-blocker blinks like a Xmas tree with all the external JavaScript resources being loaded, you can be pretty sure that this website is actively disregarding your privacy. Sadly this applies to most commercial websites these days.
What other comments mentioned, and also, https://tosdr.org might be a good tool. It summarizes terms of service and privacy policy into a few sentences.
I’d recommend to use Tor on all websites, except the ones you need to login for some social account, in this case a separated browser for this purpose would be best. But if you want to check if a website respects your privacy before opening it, you can check in this link:
Put a URL in the field and scan it, it will show all the trackers this link has before visiting it.