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Within 5 minutes of usage my pihole instance blocked 100s of request and DDG app protection blocked facebook trackers. This should be illegal

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did anyone see the privacy details on the App Store?Screenshot

[–] _s1591 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[–] SUPERcrazy3530 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's sadly not any worse than Instagram already is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's true. That's why I don't use either of them.

[–] Jourei 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like they found their life easier by just not bothering with EU. Now I wonder, what kind of result you would've gotten if they had decided to try and comply enough so that GDPR wouldn't crucify them again.

[–] rusty 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Likely they'll continue to do the same with gdpr, just make you click through a dark pattern agreement popup.

[–] Jourei 7 points 1 year ago

That's the fun part! GDPR requires these things to be clear and whatever waiver you sign doesn't hold.

[–] ParkedInReverse 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Edit: Can be said for any Meta item really.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Rotation and accelerometer data? So they want to know how you hold the phone in your hand when using the app? lol

[–] Contramuffin 6 points 1 year ago

Probably meant to be a way to estimate where you are if you have GPS turned off

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

iirc Google uses motion data to track if you're walking, biking, car, etc, so I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook/Meta did the same.

[–] slaacaa 13 points 1 year ago

It is

(in Europe)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

30 million people still signed up… supposedly. It’s just insane to me.

[–] sunbather 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t understand why you’d use any meta product if you’re concerned about this kind of thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't, i just want to check

[–] sunbather 2 points 1 year ago

Fair enough 😄

[–] Sinister_Grape 7 points 1 year ago

It’s even slower than Lemmy was at the start of the week, and absolute shite to boot.

[–] ThatGirlKylie 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you automatically signed up for this since it’s part of Facebook? I really have no interest in threads at all or do I have to manually opt out of it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@ThatGirlKylie No, you aren't signed up for it automatically, nor do you have to opt out if you have a Facebook account. This is aimed at Instagram users.

[–] billiam0202 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you meant Twitter, since Instagram is already owned by Meta.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@billiam0202 I’m sorry, what I meant was the integration that Threads has with Insta users (ability to migrate Insta acct to Threads and not a users FB account). You are correct though, Zuck is definitely looking to take Twitter users from Elon.

[–] billiam0202 1 points 1 year ago

Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying!

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