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.”

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      Yeah for real… are these people fucking retarded? There was a mass Facebook exodus for a reason… does nobody remember?

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        People left Facebook because it got overwhelmed with their parents and grandparents, not because they ever cared about privacy.

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        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.

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            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.

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    What I don’t understand is why people wound even want to use this app…

    What possible appeal could it have?

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      Using Threads knowing it’s a product of Zuck, is like voting for Trump in 2024 cause he wore a different style suit.

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        You say that, but if he went out on stage in a pink sequins suit with assless chaps because it would somehow “own the libs”, a tragically high number of people would be all over that.

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          The Proud Boys leader fucked a dildo to own the libs. So you’re not wrong.

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            Oh God I forgot about that lmao, what a fucking idiot. I wonder how many of his fellow Proud Boys tried it out too 🤣

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      “Okay so it’s basically Twitter, but with like… Facebook features…” Is literally a joke I have made about annoying app ideas people have when you tell them you’re a software developer.

      I have made this joke a few times, because it killed every time.

      I’m stunned. Out of material, and stunned.

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        Had a dude tell me he wanted to ‘disrupt’ social media by creating a LinkedIn alternative that allowed posting videos.

        He just needed a couple ‘techies’ like me to get it off the ground.

        Haven’t heard from him in a while. I hope rehab worked out for him.

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        Your responsible for this you willed this evil into the world I cast you out to the sea and rocks below to you and your twitter with Facebook features

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      I’d guess you have to like Twitter in the first place to understand the appeal. Some people like it, some don’t, but the Twitter format has been pretty popular over the years, and this comes at at time when Elron has been making twitter dramatically worse for anyone who doesn’t share his political views. Meta gives the appeal as “having a platform that is sanely run, that they believe that they can trust and rely upon for distribution”. At this point, even if I thought Elron was a great guy I sure wouldn’t invest much in building my twitter account as the future of the site seems shaky. Also though, on the other hand, who knows if this will be a success for Meta and whether they’ll still support it 3 years from now.

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        I do have a Twitter account but I almost never use it anymore because it has become such a cesspool…

        I just don’t think another copy of that cesspool run by a different asshole is likely to really be any more interesting than the original.

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          I did have an account, until the API changes made Twitteriffic unusable and all the people I follow left. Then I started using Reddit.

          Now I use Mastodon and Lemmy. I will not go back to using a Social network that does not have; A) an open API which allows my choice of third party apps. B) a way to migrate my data and content.

          The exceptions are Apple Messages (for family and close friends), SMS (for family and close friends who do t have iPhones) and Facebook under a fake name, sandboxed in FireFox Focus.

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    It’s unbelievable that an app which collect this many data points, including voice, is legally allowed. Insane. Yes, people should not use it and should care, but come on… this is just mass surveillance and collection.

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      Well, that’s how Cambridge Analytica scandal happened

      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/

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      including voice

      how else would facebook live and such work?

      i mean some of these makes sense

      but its also a question of … does the app use all these things, all the time?

      do we know?

      On my mac i have to allow discord to record my voice etc. if i dont, i can still use the app but i cant talk in a voice call, and such.

      i’d like if apps did similar, on phones. they’d work but some functions would just be unavailable

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          Actually, apps can check how many times other apps have been opened without any special permission. You can create a Work Profile with applications like Shelter and install all of these spyware there!

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    • The name of your first crush.
    • Your religious beliefs.
    • Your innermost fears.
    • That thing you did in June of 2007 that you must never speak about.
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      You just reminded me of the random surveys that used to sometimes come in the mail for my Mum back before the internet was a thing. I flipped through a couple and it asked things like if you have a pet and what brand of cat food you gave them and all this totally random shit. I wonder what benefit to the home owner there was for filling such a bullshit survey in.

      These days, Facebook would probably just use some AI to scan your photos and figure out if you have a cat and what brand of food it eats. You’d never know, and you gave away any defence the moment you uploaded the image.

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        I’ve recently started taking a lot of international flights for work.

        Now the ad algorithms thinks I’m some international jet setter and I get ads for luxury boats.

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    That tracks about everything it possibly can just for the sake of it. I despise Meta so much…

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      The list is just a list.

      The VPN just blocked requests to Facebook domains and it says that it might have contained that data. But it has no idea what data was inside. Maybe was filled with tracking or maybe it was just requesting something else

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        I am also trying DDG app tracker out. This is what I got after opening Simcity Buildit. Not really surprised, because Fuck EA, but some of the requests might be the linking of account. Still, 930-- damnnnnn.

        excruciatingly long list with many corporations

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    If you block them from collecting even one of those things, they’ll lock you out of your account until you show them your ID and SSN. It should be illegal for social media to spy on you THAT invasively.

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    Looking at the data collection categories in the ios app store for Threads is terrifying. Similarly, mastodon collects nothing. General population doesn’t seem to care though given the number of signups that Threads has received in the last few days. People are happy to give their information away.

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    And then they’ll need another permission to access your photos, contacts, text messages… They’ll grab and run with everything what’s in your phone. Before your 1st day is over, they’ll know everything about you, your friends and family. It’s just another massive privacy/data grab. Fuck them (and fuck u/spez ofc).

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    I don’t care if this app becomes the new norm, I ain’t risking all that metadata. Fuck Facebook

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    Youtube has done it now. The internet fighting is on. Truly not able to see Youtube now with blockers.