So many people are going to sign up and never look at this once.
and that’s probably the scariest part
What’s crazy is even Instagram and WhatsApp don’t have this many permissions.
IG and WhatsApp definitely still get all the telemetry they need - just through other methods or through OS level permission loopholes unfortunately
No because that would hinder their ability to dump information about everything they’re doing and who they’re with for attention.
It’s like a CVS receipt of privacy invasion.
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.
Why are they collecting financial information??
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.
thanks for the correction
Available in the U.K. Brexit was such a bad idea. Smh
Is this what convinced you of that?
I knew that a long time ago, it’s just one more thing
Id guess adspace for rich people can be sold at a premium.
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/
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.
Installing one more app is not much of an ask. You’re not asking them to abandon the others
I like your approach
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.
Beuatiful spyware
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?
Fuck Facebook.
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
Meta apps and shady Flashlight/Calculator apps, the two at 80mph, who wins?
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.
How did you get around people you are in contact with flat out refusing to explore alternatives like they owe zuck?
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.
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.
Holy fuck
This should not be allowed. Anywhere. This is insane and scary, considering the vast majority will simply not give a shit and install anyway.
If server admins federate with Meta, I will be looking for a new server.
app store: Please check your data security failures.
facebook: thinks
facebook: I’ll take the lot!
