Privacy drove me off reddit, I looked around for these answers but not sure where to come across them.
- Am I sharing my IP address/ location with my host instance?
- is there a log of my view history
- are there general privacy concerns that I am not thinking of?
I do not want to be in a position where a Government creates an instance, and allows them to monitor.
Optimally instances should have a tos or privacy statement, but out of the box you can expect a web server to collect your IP (if for nothing but know where to respond to your requests), a log of your requests, and any content you generate in using the instance (comments, votes, posts). login data (email, username, hashed password) are also stored to let you log in at all.
any other data will depend on the instance in question, how it is configured, and who is running it.
If you don’t want governments monitoring you, I really think you need to get off the public internet.
The tools are becoming too advanced, and they are legally allowed to do it by current law. In most places anyway. So, wave to the alphabet soup guys, everyone! Hiiiii~! Hope you all catch a terrorist! Have a good day!
I mean, if they’re legally allowed to monitor, then they’d just be dumb not to, you know? It’s our job to make that illegal if we don’t want it to happen, and we haven’t done that yet.
I don’t know about 2 and 3, but every service and website you connect to has your IP address.