In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like “headphone status” and “screen density.”

  • kobra@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Idk, literally everyone I know has a Facebook page. They may not use it, buts it’s there almost like a listing in a phone book.

      • mainaccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Happened to me. Had a fake profile to test some apps and when they asked for an ID, I literally sent a pic of my MIDDLE FINGER. They accepted.

        • morriscox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Did you make sure to remove the EXIF metadata? It would be ironic if it has the image location coordinates in it.

        • Rocket@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          200 iq move by facebook, now they have the biometric reading from the nail on your middle finger

    • eleitl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      I know not a single one who has that. My wife uses WhatsApp and Instagram though.

      • 👽🍻👽@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Has a lot to do with age demographics and the inability for Meta to allow a person to easily delete their page. Many if not most millennials have a Facebook page, but like myself, never use it and when asked if I have a Facebook, say no even though I technically have a one I don’t log in to.

        Anecdotally, most of the people I know over the age of 45 have a Facebook and use it regularly. I don’t know very many zoomers, but the few sub-30 year olds I do know, never even made a Facebook account, but do use Instagram.

        • seang96@spgrn.comEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I had a person that hated me in high school create a FB page that said I graduated from Harvard and worked at a gay bar with a picture she sneakily took like a creep. Idiots believed it was my FB page and asked why I wasn’t accepting their friend requests. Not sure if the page still exists, I had family ask to try and take it down but I don’t use Facebook to know if anything happened.

          • Polydextrous@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Well, what we learned from those tech whistleblowers was that, even those of us that never even made a FB account have a profile made of us from pictures and things people said about us on their fuckin FB accounts. This probably goes for those of us born before ‘95, but I would assume that practice is only heightened by data scraped from Android devices, the expanded access via Instagram, the leaps in tech, etc for those born after ‘95.

            So buckle up, folks. It’s all bad.

    • mrmanager@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The phone book was not a big tech corporation, which is why it was a suitable place to have your phone number.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        It was owned by a big tech corporation, Ma Bell. And then it got broken up and there were just a bunch of smaller monopolies printing phone books.