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Yikes.
i don't know why anyone would want to go from something as bad as twitter to a Facebook owned twitter
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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Can anyone explain how these are different from the data Meta already collects from its Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger users? I've been slowly moving my online presence away from Meta products, but I feel like Threads isn't going to do much better than BlueSky, or Hive, or Post, or even our beloved Mastodon.
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I know meta is shit anyways, but what is the idea behind their Twitter competitor, like what is their selling point?
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Is there anything left where they don’t want any permission? Ooof
People complain about Lemmy's privacy policy, but... I mean... gestures
User: So how many permissions does your app need?
Threads: Yes!
Sensitive Info, Health Data? õÔ
I assume health data will be what the phone can extrapolate from its sensors, for example, data about your walls and runs from an accelerometer, or screen usage, or sleeping schedules
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They misspelled their service, should be: threats (to your privacy).
Meta knows they can’t fix their terrible privacy record so they might as well milk it.
Sadly people will still jump there. It will eventually overtake Mastodon in numbers because people are dependent on the convenience of walled gardens.
That's gonna be a NOPE for me, chief.
Financial Info, Identifiers, Sensitive Info... Woudn't it be easier just to give them my wallet and passport.
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No, this is the data they would like to collect from those foolish enough to grant it.
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Meta is sickening. You have to have it for promoting events, artists and such, but it’s toxic and needs to be replaced.
As a music artist, I don’t know how to avoid platforms like Instagram and such while still promoting my art.
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Health and Fitness
Dude I have a step counting app that doesn't even need that shit. It just goes off the gyro. Definitely have no reason to be giving a social media app access to that shit.
Because this information is very valuable to advertisers who want to target to customer base. If Meta sells them the users who happen to be X, Y, and Z and also happen to be searching recently for a similar product, Boom they’ve got themselves a likely customer. Much easier than advertising to the masses and hoping 0.1% will bite.
It’s all about discreet money making. The advertisers and Meta only care about how to make money off you.
They're the same as for Facebook and Instagram and since this one is perhaps most geared towards existing Instagram users, there won't be much more data given because you've probably already done it.
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99% of apps are just a data miner placed in front of a website.
Absolutely laughable that all these corporate dumbasses are tripping over themselves to explain why their platform is more user friendly but even with near unlimited resources to build a decent product Meta et al still can't figure out a way to justify their existence without quantifying and selling their users' private behaviors
Seriously I am already struggling to get meta out of my life enough to sign in to a new service with them.