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These are the privacy permissions that you grant for Meta's new twitter competitor (yiffit.net)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So he can sell your data to advertisers. Yeah, don’t use anything made by Meta that is connected to the internet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Worse, they gatekeep your data and only sell your attention to advertisers. That way no one has all the data but them.

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

Yeah, the data is used to create profiles of you to serve more relevant ads, so that advertisers pay them more. Thats more accurate once I think about it a little.

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

I want a semi-decent VR headset so bad, but I don’t want to put six or seven cameras made by Facebook into my house.