What else did you expect from Meta?
Vacuum up all data, categories it and let advertisers pay to target those demographics.
this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
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I especially love the "other data"... What the hell else is there?!
Also "Sensitive info", what is that? Fingerprints, social security number, and penis size?
Ha! They can't measure mine because it's detachable!
I woke up this morning with a bad hangover and my penis was missing again. This happens all the time. It's detachable.
Detachable peeeenis
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Apple lists the following:
“Such as racial or ethnic data, sexual orientation, pregnancy or childbirth information, disability, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, political opinion, genetic information, or biometric data”
Biometric data is a bit scary.
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I always find it funny that meta and google collect all your data for ads, but I've never seen an ad that I was interested in
Do people even process the contents of an ad? Most of the time I selectively ignore them.
I feel the same. But I would guess that consciously it not, we are now more aware/knowledgeable of a product's existence because we came across an ad.
I think children are WAY more susceptible to add though. So many times I have seen my nieces and nephews playing free games on their tablet and just completely watch the video ad that interrupts the game. Kids are like sponges, just soaking everything up.
There's gotta be some studies somewhere on the subconscious effects of advertisements.
Depends how they are delivered. Social media posts are bad because they look like posts (with a tiny “promoted” badge somewhere) so those get me for a split second.
But I’m an avoid ad at all costs kinda person.
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I know it's for advertising but there's a paranoid little corner of my mind that imagines insurance companies paying for some of these, uh, "user insights."
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I mean, did anyone think it wasn’t basically spyware?
Almost every app on your phone is like this. Facebook, Twitter and Insta especially.
I'm surprised people are surprised by this. You've all been walkign round with spy devices on you as long as Eddie Snowden told you a decade ago.
I love how you say ‘almost every app’ and then your three examples include two Meta apps and also Twitter. Their whole business models are to gather as much as possible to sell.
Not every app needs your health data, financial information, and usage data to send short messages to their friends. I get wanting a certain amount of data in order to do certain things but needing basically everything possible frankly SHOULD BE eye opening to people if they didn’t already know.
I just happened to pick the lowest hanging fruits. I could list many more but it'd be easier to list the ones that don't.
Put it this way: Android now has an automated feature which disables app permissions for apps you've not used in a while. I regularly get notifications of apps that have had permissions blocked because I've not used them in a week. Even Google realises that developers are getting obnoxious with their permission demands.
And Google aren't innocent. E.g. Google Home, Chrome. But also non-Google: Binance, banking apps, Fiverr, AliExpress.
I suggest installing an Android firewall. You can use a non-root version. You'll get so pissed off with the constant 'phone home' notifications day & night that you'll disable them. I was getting fucking RSI in my wrist cos the notifications made my Garmin vibrate almost non-stop for every notification going from a phone app to somewhere across thw world with my data. Last night I got 3 notifications in 15mins stopping me from sleeping and I still had things locked down a lot.
Until you've looked at how truly obscene it is you don't realise just how banal this post is.
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What also impresses me is the app size: 191MB (before installing) for an app that doesn't have any complex feature.
Love to ship every icon in 1080p and a JITing Javascript VM that runs on top of a JITIng Java VM and also the code to collect all this data and the APIs of thirty ad networks to send it to. Also a complete reimplementation of buttons, can't be caught dead using the buttons the system provides.
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I don't see how the app could possibly function without access to your call logs and messages. /s
I mean, it's meta - of course it's too invasive.
"You can be unethical and still be legal"
- Mark Zuckerberg
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Lol people see this and then think I got nothing to hide and proceeds to download🤣🤣
Post number 3.492 complaining about Threads
Do you really think, there should only be two post complaining about this shitty piece of software and then we should walk our way?
Clearly there should be 3491 only.
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I see Lemmy is already at the "X is bad, updoots on the left" stage
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I find this ridiculous, but the general public doesn’t seem to care. And this stuff will continue until they do. So forever.
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Were you expecting anything better from zuck lmao?
What, you don't see why a Twitter-esque app would need access to your Health and Fitness data?
/s
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Yeah. Miss me with that shit. Never gonna touch anything meta related
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mildly infuriating?! That’s a mild understatement.
I never understood why people prefer threads over Mastodon or Lemmy. Their app bundle size is so much smaller. 250mb for an app that does similar to what Mastodon and Lemmy is doing is ridiculous
People like self-promotion and the chance of getting millions of views for your latest post. The Fediverse is like a nerdy book club in comparison (which is why I'm here).
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Threads is just another gimmicky clone of Twitter, there is not new or interesting about it plus it collects all your personal data.
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Apple has a page up outlining what each area collects and shares: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/app-privacy-details/#data-type
How is it that there is not an app that is a container and you can run apps in that container and anything running in that container can't access any data outside if the container.
Maybe even the container mocks up data to make your profile look complete.
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It's Facebook, what did you expect.
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