Yikes
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@be_excellent_to_each_other
@RabbitholeYep. That’s why I call Meta/Facebook… MeatHook
And all of it 100% unnecessary. Which is painful to think about the 30M people that signed up without caring about this.
Seriously… I don’t understand how people can look at that list and be like. This seems fine.
It isn’t unnecessary at all, if you’re Meta.
Which is the fundamental issue with a system like that.
The priority is in the wrong damn place.
It is necessary… for Meta.
Their business depends on the data that is harvested from it’s users.The fact that they can’t launch in EU because of how much data they are hoovering up, is a tell tale sign as to how the business is operating.
I’ve reported it as spyware on google play. Let’s see if they ever get around to answering :-P
ah yes, reporting spyware to the company famous for having spyware on literally everything they make
True, but google might have enough spite to stick it to meta, who knows.
Lol “sensitive info 👁️” Like what are they looking at? 😳Do they really need to link the nudes to my identity?
It’s a list of sensitive info and then there’s “sensitive info” as a separate category. Wild.
How can they have an “Other data” category? I thought Apple was so focused on your privacy but they can’t even list all the data apps are tracking. The android screenshot listed mush more.
I know that it’s just me being cynical, but in my head, there’s no way that the “other” category isn’t by far the largest one out of them all.
No that is just smart.
Collecting so much info there aren’t enough categories to cover it all
How the fuck is that even legal, do they require any justification for this?
I guess the fact that they didn’t launch in europe spoke for itself.
I had not heard of that new shit. Randomnly went to theverge, and and saw they are forcefeeding this new Threads to everyone as the “top articles”. Almost 100K posts already, 35millions accounts activated. People just don’t learn.
I wouldn’t say it’s force-feeding for a news site to report on the highly successful launch of a new social network by one of the largest tech companies in the world that’s also directly aiming to compete with a platform owned by a very controversial and frankly entertaining megalomaniac.
If anything, I’d say they’re a poor news organization if they didn’t cover it.
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I cannot comprehend how are people using these apps. Why would you want want to be tracked and targeted by a corporation like Meta is beyond me, what are you gaining in return of your whole data
Genuinely, are you asking why people like social media in general?
For one reason or another, they find the platform to be some combination of useful or entertaining and a good way to connect with people they care about. If you don’t otherwise have significant personal issues about advertising, it’s not an unreasonable position to think that the pros outweigh the cons, even if you have different priorities.
Depression, lower self esteem, active participation in the destruction of society, and sometimes a path to bigoted hateful extremist terrorism.
Not a bad deal if you have rocks for brains.
A friend of mine simply tried using Threads just to see how shitty it would be. She thought that it would be as simple as a quick download followed by a swift delete.
Turns out, you can’t delete your Threads account without nuking your Instagram account either. She’s stuck with the Threads account now.
Yep, the goal should be to off Board the users to other instances asap
Surprised: nobody
Victims: a lot
Surprised: still nobody
A Facebook owned app collects as much data as humanly possible? I am shocked at this unforeseen development
Remember this when they try to integrate into the fedeverse. Don’t be one of the people that says “meta will make it popular!” Be one of the people that will recognize that meta will use it as a tool to extract as much information from users as possible, amongst other nefarious things
I mean, Meta can extract from the fediverse already. Having a federated instance doesn’t really change that. It doesn’t provide them deeper access than before. Theyre either federating due to EU policies on interoperability or trying to position themselves as the best instance in regards to the fediverse. There’s a lot of clamour as to how great the fediverse is for users, now they can say “choose us, we’re fediverse.” Other instances need to show them the benefit of other instances and point out that they can have all the “benefits of Threads” (really just benefits of fediverse) without all the disadvantages.
Yeah I don’t want it to be popular, I want it to be good and sustainable. Everything else comes after.
Practice makes permanent. Do it right, then get faster.
Take me back in time to the 2000s when the most scandalous spyware was a purple gorilla virtual assistant telling awful jokes with a TTS voice.
Off topic, but I keep hearing your comments in Max Headroom’s voice. This one was especially suitable for that!
Read ‘TTS’ with exaggerated glitching/stuttering for maximum effect.
I remember when it was something of a privacy scandal that RealPlayer would phone home to check for updates.
Still, end of the day, if people aren’t willing to pay for services with money, directly, then they’re going to pay with their data.
