WTF is this! Meta new app

So many people are going to sign up and never look at this once.

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and that's probably the scariest part

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What's crazy is even Instagram and WhatsApp don't have this many permissions.

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- IG and WhatsApp definitely still get all the telemetry they need - just through other methods or through OS level permission loopholes unfortunately
  
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No because that would hinder their ability to dump information about everything they're doing and who they're with for attention.

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Yeah this is truly insane. This will never be on my phone. It also helps that Europe thinks this is bullshit as well and it’s not available here.

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It's like a CVS receipt of privacy invasion.

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Why are they collecting financial information??

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they want everything... even they got banned in Europe because of this

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- They weren't banned, they just preemptively pulled out because they knew they couldn't pull this shit in europe.
  
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And why Health and Fitness?

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- Biometric data.
  
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Id guess adspace for rich people can be sold at a premium.

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Because of in app purchases and commerce? Of all the things in this list that is the least surprising.

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YSK Meta is also a threat to the privacy of fediverse users, if there are fediverse instances that remain federated with Meta.

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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Isn't this information that can be just as meaningfully scraped from the Fediverse as it is? And if they truly need to operate an instance to scrape that data whats to stop them from simply operating an instance and failing to advertise that it's owned and operated by Meta?

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What a nightmare I wish My family stopped using meta apps

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WhatsApp is the real drama.

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- People should use Signal instead. I don't care if anybody doesn't like it, it's what I use and if you want to talk to me you'll fuckin' use it.
  
  Never installing any Facebook garbage apps.
  
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Meta apps and shady Flashlight/Calculator apps, the two at 80mph, who wins?

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Marty at 88mph back to MySpace and simpler times. I miss Tom.

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I am so happy that I’ve deleted my facebook account about 5 years ago and never since then used any app from Zuckercamp.

I still have to make a few more accounts with one of my proton mail addresses and I will de-google myself almost completely, with only youtube as an exception.

For now.

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How did you get around people you are in contact with flat out refusing to explore alternatives like they owe zuck?

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- Not OP, but those people are just not my friends any more.
  
  We had one person in our group say she wanted to delete facebook and we were all “Yea, alright then” and just moved that group to discord.
  
  I’ve still got an account but use it way less these days since all the people I really cared about were in that group.
  
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- Luckily for me, anyone who wanted to keep in touch simply has my number to just call or jumped onto Telegram train with me some time ago and then switched for Signal after just a few months.
  
  I don’t know anyone who feels like they owe Zuck anything but I heard quite a few times “I would delete my fb account but I need it for a work group chat because everyone else is there” and I can sometimes see some FOMO there.
  
  But then, now some of those groups afaik are slowly migrating to Discord — which maybe is not perfect but still sometimes any change is a big change.
  
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I love that it states that you can request for your data to be deleted with no explicit wording stating that it will be

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You can request we delete your data and maybe we will lie and say we did when we didn't actually and maybe we will just tell you to fuck off in nice corporate language but either way you can rest safely knowing we won't delete your data and will probably let it be stolen by black market hackers

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Beuatiful spyware

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Fuck Facebook.

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Nope

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You... are shocked about that? Really?

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Just a reminder for anyone using Facebook and Facebook messenger,they are separate apps and you need to set permissions to your liking on them separately. By default they both have pretty much everything enabled.

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That is just… not something I’d ever want to even come near, much less touch with a 10 foot pole.

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What do you expect from an app named after the notoriously grim British movie about a nuclear holocaust.

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Haha good one! I was wondering why that name sounded familiar and this is it.

Very good film to see.. once and never ever unsee or forget the images, isn’t it?

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Not touching that. Haha.

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Can’t download it in the EU anyway. Probably for the best

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So, a standard Meta app.

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I am surprised the font is not tiny.

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This list looks about right to me

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If server admins federate with Meta, I will be looking for a new server.

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Why are people so surprised? Did you expect anything less?

And then idiot YouTubers and other shills be like "oooh look at all my engagement" and shrug this shit off at most.

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Holy fuck

This should not be allowed. Anywhere. This is insane and scary, considering the vast majority will simply not give a shit and install anyway.

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Meta being meta

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Can you opt-out in the drop down?

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Would an android user not be able to restrict the vast majority of these pulls?

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Yes, I have achieved this by not installing any meta apps.

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- The true sigma move
  
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Sure, but many apps will refuse to work when not giving in to their demands. If an app does that I uninstall it faster than I installed it though

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app store: Please check your data security failures.

facebook: thinks

facebook: I'll take the lot!

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I fell for the hype and down loaded to see what it was about. I didn’t read that!! What does the financial info mean? What level of detail do they have access to? Like for credit score is that info on my phone or are they getting access to a credit card app? Stealing info while I’m logged into app?

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They can even read which apps you have installed in your phone

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- What OS is that? Graphene? That feature looks hella handy
  
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Everything i expect

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I could be wrong but doesn’t the Facebook and Instagram app collect this same amount of information as well?

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Two wrongs don't make a right.

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- Nor does triple-commenting.
  
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Two wrongs don't make a right.

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Two wrongs don't make a right.

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are a lot of these options not opt-in at the system level? on iOS at least. i know they can approximate a lot using ad tracking but not health info on the phone if you don’t allow it

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On Android all permissions are disabled by default

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Pretty much as expected. :)

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Waiting for threads to be available through other ActivePub instances like mastodon. Being free from giants, yet having the possibility to access their content.

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To be fair, I bet most apps probably track the same. But meta (probably for legal reasons) has to tell you about it.

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Without asking for the permissions they might not get far though

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