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
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submitted 1 year ago by lo________________ol@lemmy.one to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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From Lemmy documentation:

We don't delete anything from our database, just hide it from users. Deleted or removed Communities/Posts/Comments have a "restore" button.

But don't take my word for it. Try it out yourself. You can make a comment, delete the comment (your username appears to remain) and then restore its content.

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[–] lo________________ol@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not from a privacy perspective, that's for sure. There are already a couple privacy downsides in federated services in general, but the decision to intentionally retain user data after deletion is requested... If that's the case, Reddit may offer more privacy

[–] zekiz@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit is even worse. When you delete your comment, it's not really deleted and still visible to the mods of the sub

[–] ThreeHopsAhead@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

That is not true.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

When you delete your account, there's an option to purge all your data.

[–] Lowbird 3 points 1 year ago

Reddit retains deleted user data, including after account deletion, and they absolutely sell it.

I dislike the retention of deleted data here, but it looks like account deletion at least is total, so it's better than what reddit does.

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