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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.

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'Pay or Okay' explained: Why more and more websites make you pay for your privacy - noyb (noyb.eu)

submitted 7 months ago by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] huginn@feddit.it 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not a typo - a false economy is a decision that saves money in the short term but wastes more than it saves in the long term.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

Thank you, learned something new!

Anti Commercial AI thingy

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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#!nix-shell -i bash --packages xautomation xclip

sleep 0.2
(echo '

 spoiler Anti Commercial AI thingy
[CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

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xte "keydown Control_L" "key V" "keyup Control_L"

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