this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2023
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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Fresh 15 year old news

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What? Facebook is using my data? I thought I could trust them! 😳

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I mean, /s if you couldn't tell.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

But I copied and pasted that definitely legally binding status update saying I didn't authorize them to use my data.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The average user :

Ooh golly.... what will I ever do... Continues using Facebook

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

i use facebook because there are groups i need to be in, it’s not always as easy as just leaving apps you don’t like the management of

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, it's pretty easy, just inconvenient. Let's not get it twisted. Need a guide?

Edit: I too have groups for school, parents groups, work, hobbies, etc... that I 'need' to be in. I refuse and make them find a work around all the while schooling the ignorant folks on privacy and why it's important. Personally anything else is just a cop out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They literally ad d ed the tagging function on images to improve their facial detection so I doubt that this is a surprise to anyone!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not surprised. Anything you see online is being fed to some garbage AI. Either they say it or they don't say anything and scrape it anyway

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"It's out there, it's ours."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/tTyPOrUg_XE?si=cNDO9edSuH_Fldq3

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

And the sky is blue

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

shocked pikachu.jxl

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Most obvious headline of the day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Everybody start posting nothing but quotes from ChatGPT, quick!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I had to check the date on this article - somehow, it's from September of 2023.ev.

We've known this for how long, exactly? Over a decade? Maybe a bit less?