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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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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
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Plex starts narcing on its own users' anime and X-rated habits with an opt-out service, and it's going terribly (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 1 year ago by DannyMac@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] J4g2F@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Everytime I hear something about Plex I become a bit happier with my choice for Emby as media server.

At the time of building my then server I could choice between them(jellyfin wasn't a thing yet). Luckily I picked emby

[–] finestnothing@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I picked Plex mainly because the lifetime sub wasn't bad, and the features and polished interface were worth it. If Plex adds too many garbage/bloat features or removes useful features then I'll jump ship to jellyfin immediately. Same boat for paying for bitwarden vs self hosting vaultwarden

[–] Thann@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is the problem with proprietary software, it starts out fine, but as it get more popular the value goes down

[–] PurplebeanZ@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As a former director of a tech startup it all goes downhill when you bring investors on board to raise capital. I had to do many things I disagreed with because once you bring investors in you generally end up facing life ruining financial penalties if you don't deliver what they want.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 11 months ago

Well you also get a fast cheque in exchange for that, right? 😸