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    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.

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      Off topic, but I keep hearing your comments in Max Headroom’s voice. This one was especially suitable for that!

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      I remember when it was something of a privacy scandal that RealPlayer would phone home to check for updates.

      Still, end of the day, if people aren’t willing to pay for services with money, directly, then they’re going to pay with their data.

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    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

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      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.

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      A friend of mine simply tried using Threads just to see how shitty it would be. She thought that it would be as simple as a quick download followed by a swift delete.

      Turns out, you can’t delete your Threads account without nuking your Instagram account either. She’s stuck with the Threads account now.

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      Genuinely, are you asking why people like social media in general?

      For one reason or another, they find the platform to be some combination of useful or entertaining and a good way to connect with people they care about. If you don’t otherwise have significant personal issues about advertising, it’s not an unreasonable position to think that the pros outweigh the cons, even if you have different priorities.

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    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

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      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.

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      I mean, Meta can extract from the fediverse already. Having a federated instance doesn’t really change that. It doesn’t provide them deeper access than before. Theyre either federating due to EU policies on interoperability or trying to position themselves as the best instance in regards to the fediverse. There’s a lot of clamour as to how great the fediverse is for users, now they can say “choose us, we’re fediverse.” Other instances need to show them the benefit of other instances and point out that they can have all the “benefits of Threads” (really just benefits of fediverse) without all the disadvantages.

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        Looks a lot like the Facebook to Meta rebranding, trying to position themselves as the “official” metaverse

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    And all of it 100% unnecessary. Which is painful to think about the 30M people that signed up without caring about this.

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      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.

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      It isn’t unnecessary at all, if you’re Meta.

      Which is the fundamental issue with a system like that.

      The priority is in the wrong damn place.

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      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.

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        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.

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        It doesn’t matter if you post anything to Facebook, or if you even have Facebook account. Almost every commercial site in the world has a “Share this” button somewhere that is loaded directly from Facebook. IF you have a Facebook cookie, your information across the Internet is collected. IF you block Facebook cookies, but use somewhat static IP, you are still monitored.

        Google and every other company that lives by datamining users for advertising purposes tries tier best to do the same. Aggressive adblocking in your browser helps a bit, at least you can tell your browser to not send the request, but it’s VERY HARD to stay outside the data collection from these companies and adblockers are a constantly escalating war of attrition.

        The End Boss isn’t Meta, Google or Twitter.
        It is advertising networks and the entire advertising industry.

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    How the fuck is that even legal, do they require any justification for this?

    I guess the fact that they didn’t launch in europe spoke for itself.

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    I don’t have an iOS device so I can’t be 100% sure, its all well and good that people are talking about the privacy problems with Threads, but doesn’t Apple’s privacy page say exactly the same things for Instagram? Why is Threads in the limelight for abusing user privacy like its a shock when Meta’s other apps also do exactly the same.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.