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[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

They are the worst of the worst, and I will never use an instance that voluntarily federates with Threads. I respect MS more than Meta, and that's a pretty incredible feat on the part of Meta.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

MS is catching up tho. Imagine Facebook style OS lol can't escape the tracking ever

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Good thing I avoid them too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ya.. It can be de gogoled tbo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but my point was that you don't have to go far to imagine such a thing. It's been here for ages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Once electronics get cheap enough, FB will probably ship free devices with some fbOS spyware. Like how they’ll zero rate data if they’re allowed to in a given region.

Per our heroes at the EFF:

Such “pay for play” arrangements favor big content providers who can afford to pay for access to users' eyeballs, and marginalize those who can't, such as nonprofits, startups, and fellow users.