• HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Anyone signing up for a new Meta account isn’t going to be suddenly surprised at how invasive it is. The people who signed up for Threads obviously don’t give a shit about privacy, as much as I’d like to think otherwise.

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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      1 year ago

      I’ve had this conversation many times, and they always say something like “I have nothing to hide, so I don’t care”, to which I respond with “I have to hide, either, but nothing I want to share. Since you have nothing to hide and you don’t care, what’s your bank account number, tax ID number, credentials, etc. etc. I won’t use it for anything bad, promise.”

      They still don’t get it…

      • QueenAlucia@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I’ve had some success by asking them to unlock their phone and give it to me so I can read their messages and look at their photos. As they refuse, I tell them “but you just said you’ve got nothing to hide and you don’t care?”

        • Boz (he/him)@lemmy.one
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          1 year ago

          And you could add that you probably wouldn’t learn as much about them by looking at their phone for a few minutes than Threads transmits to Meta every second of every day.

        • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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          1 year ago

          I did that once to a friend of mine, but because he knows me and known I’m trustworthy, he did it hahaha I had to resort to verbalizing the invasive actions I would take when I got the phone so that my point would sink in

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      1 year ago

      Especially since there’s over 2 BILLION Instagram users. Why would anyone who uses Instagram have any concerns with Threads?