Plenty of report out there that even if WhatsApp is e2e meta is harvesting as much info as it can from it. Signal has proven to store as minimal as possible.

I see credit card, pay pal and Google pay? Which is anonymous?

Edit I see, seems to be available after account creation, described on its payments page

Cookies are essentially an older way to store data for web pages. The browser knows to attach this information on every request to the website.

Where they got a bad rap is companies like Facebook, Twitter, ect. Started embedding them in the “like” buttons on pages passively tracking every website you went to, whether you were logged in or not. Gaining massive tracking of the whole Internet.

Once people started getting wind of this there was massive pushback against cookies and various legislation was for sites to have to tell you that the site uses cookies for various things and how they track your activities.

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Nothing. There also nothing to prevent instances to be ran by anyone. Lemmy is about sharing information with low regulation not privacy.

Oh man I need to look into this synapse is so slow

Better yet hash of the file and torrent magnet. Only risk is the original getting lost. But we’d know which is.