Yeah this is truly insane. This will never be on my phone. It also helps that Europe thinks this is bullshit as well and it’s not available here.
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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It's like a CVS receipt of privacy invasion.
So many people are going to sign up and never look at this once.
Why are they collecting financial information??
Id guess adspace for rich people can be sold at a premium.
they want everything... even they got banned in Europe because of this
They weren't banned, they just preemptively pulled out because they knew they couldn't pull this shit in europe.
What a nightmare I wish My family stopped using meta apps
WhatsApp is the real drama.
People should use Signal instead. I don't care if anybody doesn't like it, it's what I use and if you want to talk to me you'll fuckin' use it.
Never installing any Facebook garbage apps.
I've tried that for a few years now. Sadly you'll lose a ton of contacts.
You would only lose contact with the people who didn't care enough to keep in touch. That's a win-win situation.
It's not just people who know, knew but also new connections that could've gone somewhere given enough time and energy.
Being the first to fight for privacy in my circles has amputated so many of my possibilities.
Legislation needs to pas so I don't have to tell everyone that I don't want my damn picture on the internet every time someone pulls a phone out.
Would an android user not be able to restrict the vast majority of these pulls?
Yes, I have achieved this by not installing any meta apps.
The true sigma move
Sure, but many apps will refuse to work when not giving in to their demands. If an app does that I uninstall it faster than I installed it though
What do you expect from an app named after the notoriously grim British movie about a nuclear holocaust.
Haha good one! I was wondering why that name sounded familiar and this is it.
Very good film to see.. once and never ever unsee or forget the images, isn’t it?
YSK Meta is also a threat to the privacy of fediverse users, if there are fediverse instances that remain federated with Meta.
Ross Schulman, senior fellow for decentralization at digital rights nonprofit the Electronic Frontier Foundation, notes that if Threads emerges as a massive player in the fediverse, there could be concerns about what he calls “social graph slurping." Meta will know who all of its users interact with and follow within Threads, and it will also be able to see who its users follow in the broader fediverse. And if Threads builds up anywhere near the reach of other Meta platforms, just this little slice of life would give the company a fairly expansive view of interactions beyond its borders.
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-threads-privacy-decentralization/
To be fair, I bet most apps probably track the same. But meta (probably for legal reasons) has to tell you about it.
Without asking for the permissions they might not get far though