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Cake day: August 19th, 2023
  • 5ubieee@slrpnk.nettoPrivacy Guides@lemmy.one•Why Monero's Privacy Matters (Video)English
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    1 year ago

    Yeah sure it should be used for its utility on a needs-basis, I don’t really disagree with you or care if people use it for whatever reason they want to.

    Point was that as a global general-use currency it doesn’t provide much added utility for the average person or provide a real solution for any of the underlying structural issues that people say it does.

  • 5ubieee@slrpnk.nettoPrivacy Guides@lemmy.one•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    1 year ago

    There’s so many more comparisons to be drawn between the US and China than most in the west think, the credit system is a great example of that since a lot of people don’t realize how fucked it is in the US.

    Just the idea of permanently ascribing a number to how profitable someone is for banks and dictating what opportunities they can get based off that number is horribly dystopian in itself, but people are so accustomed to it and have so many misconceptions to its purpose that there’s not nearly as much criticism over it as there should be.

    Another part of it is the rigid west-east dichotomy that’s still brought up so often even as it’s become increasingly irrelevant in the past several decades, I’d recommend anyone who’s interested check out There Never Was a West, it’s a short read but I think it can be pretty eye opening and puts a lot of the modern day rhetoric about international politics into a broader historical perspective.

  • 5ubieee@slrpnk.nettoPrivacy Guides@lemmy.one•Search engines comparedEnglish
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    1 year ago

    anecdotal but i ended up switching from ddg and searxng to brave because of how much more relevant and well structured i found their search results to be so i’m not sure i agree with the findings for that column

    absolutely hate the company and am skeptical of their practices, but even considering all that their search toes the line of privacy and functionality better than some others, at least in the case of a daily user who needs a service that lies somewhere in the middle of those 2 extremes

  • 5ubieee@slrpnk.nettoPrivacy Guides@lemmy.one•How did you guys use reddit and discord?English
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    1 year ago

    lol the absolutism of people in privacy communities can be really be so unhelpful and tonedeaf at times

    For discord there’s a couple things that can increase privacy to some degree, OpenAsar has some options related to privacy and tracking and will speed up load times, no clue how effective the anti-tracking feature is though. You could also use modded or 3rd party clients, I remember hearing about Powercord back when I used discord more and Replugged seems to be the continuation of that project. I also remember hearing of clients that basically simplifies the app to an IRC client with a super basic gui, I’ll edit if I remember the name