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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
Don’t promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
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lemmyreadertoPrivacy@lemmy.mlEnglish·6 months ago

cross-posted to:
privacyguides@lemmy.one

DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android

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DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android

lemmyreadertoPrivacy@lemmy.mlEnglish·6 months ago

cross-posted to:
privacyguides@lemmy.one

We were recently made aware of multiple potential DNS leaks on Android. They stem from bugs in Android itself, and only affect certain apps.

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That is the definition “stock” for me as well. What @Tundra@lemmy.ml mentions is the definition of “default”. Big difference.
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  Fair enough - we are agreed at least then that the default android os is awful for privacy.
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    We all agree on that, I’m sure. Have a great Sunday, guys.
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      You too!