Privacy

31451 readers

587 users here now

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.

Some Rules

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
Be nice :)

Related communities

Chat rooms

[Matrix/Element]Dead
Discord

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

When a service advertise as 100% open source, do you expect the website to be open-source too? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

13 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Long title, wopsi.

Recently been checking out PIA VPN service(for research purposes), and they advertise their services to be 100% open source. However when checking their Github they don't seem to have their code base for website there.

So this have had me wondering, when you hear the term 100% open source. Do you expect ALL of what they do, including website part, to be open source? Or just the application / service that they offer?

Lemmyknow your thoughts!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] PeachMan@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I mostly use a VPN for torrents, and not much else honestly. And Mullvad isn't very friendly to torrenters (for good reasons), they don't allow port forwarding.