So in other words Meta/Facebook are still Meta/Facebook, and right there in front of us is the reason we should all support the fedipact.
and likely that is the reason why it did not come to EU on start
It’s exactly the reason the EU shut the door on them.
I’ve reported it as spyware on google play. Let’s see if they ever get around to answering :-P
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.
What else did you expect from Meta?
Oh, I expected absolutely nothing else.
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
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.
And all of it 100% unnecessary. Which is painful to think about the 30M people that signed up without caring about this.
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.
whatnoway
Collecting so much info there aren’t enough categories to cover it all
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.
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
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.
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.
Might as well just hire someone to stalk you.
That’s why I deleted my actual Facebook account, it really did give me the impression that the company was Cyberstalking me. They knew stuff I did not tell them or put down anywhere in any of the data forms they gave me to fill out. I didn’t upload any pictures, I barely did much of anything, yet somehow they seemed to know everything about me anyway.
I eventually made a new “account” a few years later and left it completely blank and filled out nothing but my name… and yet they still guessed quite a few things correctly, including who I knew in real life. So damn creepy. I only use that new account for log in synchronization for games and apps that don’t have any other means of access. I wish I could get rid of it too, but it’s a necessary evil for certain edge cases.
You should look up “Facebook shadow profiles”. Amidst all the Cambridge analytica hearings, Zuck admitted to collecting data of people NOT on Facebook. There’s stuff goin back to 2011 that shows they’ve been doing since at least then.
Maybe it’s worth giving up those games to get rid of the Facebook account.
Pfffft. What’s the drama? So you create a new insta account with no info and then pop it to Threads. They get nothing and you still get to see what’s what.
Are you really so thick to think that your workaround solves the problem?
Yeah, that doesn’t actually work that way at all.
