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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
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If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
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Instagram locked my account and forced me to appeal and send a picture of my face, so I sent a picture of Shrek. They deleted my account (szmer.info)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been a social media hermit for the past 3 years but recently I've given up and created a few accounts across different apps again. It's unreal how strict the requirements are now.

Give e-mail (ok)
Give phone number (.... eeh, ok)
Use the new account for a while
Account suspended, please upload selfie to continue (no thanks xi). There are also some verification promps where you have to record a video and rotate your face left to right

If this isn't a message to move to indie web I don't know what is

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Do you have a good recommendation for when they ask for a photo ID? I read about OnlyFake, but its down and I can't find an alternative.

Basically I want thisIDdoesnotexist