Mildly Infuriating

And their justification of it.

Edit: since for whatever reason i couldn't reply to @[email protected], i'll edit my comment here:

I have no issue with the difference in opinion, but idk, if giving up way more privacy than it needed to run the app doesn't seems bad to you, i have nothing much to add 😐

Because fundamentally, people really don't care about all that much. They want a simple social network that's vaguely pleasant to use, has the people and content they're looking for, and otherwise stays out of their way. They certainly don't care about Musk's random crusade du jour against the evil woke libs.

Nor do they particularly care about targeted advertising so long as it remains vaguely unobtrusive and their data isn't constantly leaked in ways that directly harm them. Zuck, for all his many flaws, is smart enough to know that the single biggest thing he can do is to largely stay out of the way.

People are Lazy.

Because people just submit it. He doesn't know why. They just trust him. Dumb Fucks.

Well, they need to know your device rotation to serve you the perfect ads! /s
Seriously, I wouldn't mind them knowing a thing or two about me, when I'm using their services. But tracking everything, just because they can, is just obnoxious. If you would translate this to the real world, you would definitely get arrested when you would stand on the corner of the street, noting down everything you see, every dimension/detail of every person walking by. You would be labeled "creep". But if Facebook does it, governments go like: You can build your new data center right here, don't mind the measly peasants that currently live in the village nearby

I wouldn't even type fa in by Firefox without the Facebook containers extension. And yeah, chrome can jam it

No but it needs access to your front camera so it can record your face before and after using threads. They want to see if their engagement algorithms made you mad so then they can tell it's working

Stop giving them ideas

Search history... Really?

They are clearly deciding if they need to start producing hearing aids

Because to find the needle in the haystack, you first need a haystack. Until you know which needle you want to use, you need loads of haystacks which could have the needle in it you need.

Also, hoarders gotta hoard. (and bastards collect all they can get away with, and more, lots more)

It's probably more meaningful to ask at this point what data can he collects that he's not collecting.

He can probably already predict it from other data with 99% accuracy

I bet that's unironically gold for certain advertisers.

The app does request permissions for financial info.

Damn duckduckgo app protection is great! I'd never heard about it, installed and turned on now. Good call-out, thank you.

I encourage others to look this up too!

Yeah, kinda. The crowd that cares move to Mastodon, that crowd that chases moves to Threads.

Now, there is still value in Twitter as long as content creators and companies post there. When we see companies pull out and content creators en masse setting up shop somewhere else the end is coming. Huge communites that depend on being huge rarely if ever can return from a real downwards spiral.

Install the Duck Duck Go browser, and sign up for the "App Tracking Protection" beta in the settings. Once you are enabled for the beta. Enable it in the settings. It acts like a VPN on your device.