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      What’s crazy is even Instagram and WhatsApp don’t have this many permissions.

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        IG and WhatsApp definitely still get all the telemetry they need - just through other methods or through OS level permission loopholes unfortunately

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      No because that would hinder their ability to dump information about everything they’re doing and who they’re with for attention.

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    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.

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    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/

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      Isn’t this information that can be just as meaningfully scraped from the Fediverse as it is? And if they truly need to operate an instance to scrape that data whats to stop them from simply operating an instance and failing to advertise that it’s owned and operated by Meta?

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    Meta apps and shady Flashlight/Calculator apps, the two at 80mph, who wins?

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    I am so happy that I’ve deleted my facebook account about 5 years ago and never since then used any app from Zuckercamp.

    I still have to make a few more accounts with one of my proton mail addresses and I will de-google myself almost completely, with only youtube as an exception.

    For now.

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      How did you get around people you are in contact with flat out refusing to explore alternatives like they owe zuck?

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        Not OP, but those people are just not my friends any more.

        We had one person in our group say she wanted to delete facebook and we were all “Yea, alright then” and just moved that group to discord.

        I’ve still got an account but use it way less these days since all the people I really cared about were in that group.

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        Luckily for me, anyone who wanted to keep in touch simply has my number to just call or jumped onto Telegram train with me some time ago and then switched for Signal after just a few months.

        I don’t know anyone who feels like they owe Zuck anything but I heard quite a few times “I would delete my fb account but I need it for a work group chat because everyone else is there” and I can sometimes see some FOMO there.

        But then, now some of those groups afaik are slowly migrating to Discord — which maybe is not perfect but still sometimes any change is a big change.

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    I love that it states that you can request for your data to be deleted with no explicit wording stating that it will be

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      You can request we delete your data and maybe we will lie and say we did when we didn’t actually and maybe we will just tell you to fuck off in nice corporate language but either way you can rest safely knowing we won’t delete your data and will probably let it be stolen by black market hackers

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    Just a reminder for anyone using Facebook and Facebook messenger,they are separate apps and you need to set permissions to your liking on them separately. By default they both have pretty much everything enabled.

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    That is just… not something I’d ever want to even come near, much less touch with a 10 foot pole.