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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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Your phone isn’t secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing (newatlas.com)

submitted 1 day ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Websites do the same thing. Example: openreplay.com

Using a browser is still better because users have more agency. But switching to the web variant isn't a magic bullet on this front.

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The browser version at least does not have the ability to take screenshots, but you will always be tracked on the websites you use, especially if their business model is advertising-based

[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 1 points 22 hours ago

It does. That's what session replay is. Granted it's scoped to the website itself, so no browser or desktop.