In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like "headphone status" and "screen density."
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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Idk, literally everyone I know has a Facebook page. They may not use it, buts it’s there almost like a listing in a phone book.
Facebook won't let me login to delete mine unless I send them a photo of my drivers license. Not gonna happen.
Happened to me. Had a fake profile to test some apps and when they asked for an ID, I literally sent a pic of my MIDDLE FINGER. They accepted.
Did you make sure to remove the EXIF metadata? It would be ironic if it has the image location coordinates in it.
They can get your location to various degrees of precision just from your IP address.
200 iq move by facebook, now they have the biometric reading from the nail on your middle finger
Seriously? I’ve never even given it an email I use, let alone phone number, where do they get off asking for ID?
He may also be an admin of a Facebook page. I was an admin for my job's (an absolutely important to no one but our community company) page, and Facebook suddenly decided one day that I was a 'high value person of interest' , which made me a possible hacking target. The wanted all kinds of personal info, including a copy of my ID, to prove I wasn't some hacker, or they would disable all my access. Fuck no I'm not giving you that, go ahead and disable me
Same here. I didn’t sign in for a few years, and next time I did, they demanded my drivers license. Why would I possibly send my ID to this shitty website? They way overestimate their importance.
Same thing was happening to me, tried again after a couple of days and it just logged in without asking anything 🤷♂️
The phone book was not a big tech corporation, which is why it was a suitable place to have your phone number.
It was owned by a big tech corporation, Ma Bell. And then it got broken up and there were just a bunch of smaller monopolies printing phone books.
I didnt know that.... thank you, stranger.
Big tech monopolies involved in everything, im just tired of it.
One of the advantages(?) of being old is you remember all the previous times corporations have fucked us over in various ways. The phone company monopoly which turned into mini-monopolies was just one more example unfortunately. At least that one's over now.
In the current age we don't even have to be that old to have been screwed by big corporations more than once. I guess anyone in their 20s would have by now gone through it at least thrice.
So what you’re saying is decentralization killed the phone book so Meta is actually saving us!? /s
I know not a single one who has that. My wife uses WhatsApp and Instagram though.
Has a lot to do with age demographics and the inability for Meta to allow a person to easily delete their page. Many if not most millennials have a Facebook page, but like myself, never use it and when asked if I have a Facebook, say no even though I technically have a one I don't log in to.
Anecdotally, most of the people I know over the age of 45 have a Facebook and use it regularly. I don't know very many zoomers, but the few sub-30 year olds I do know, never even made a Facebook account, but do use Instagram.
I had a person that hated me in high school create a FB page that said I graduated from Harvard and worked at a gay bar with a picture she sneakily took like a creep. Idiots believed it was my FB page and asked why I wasn't accepting their friend requests. Not sure if the page still exists, I had family ask to try and take it down but I don't use Facebook to know if anything happened.
Well, what we learned from those tech whistleblowers was that, even those of us that never even made a FB account have a profile made of us from pictures and things people said about us on their fuckin FB accounts. This probably goes for those of us born before ‘95, but I would assume that practice is only heightened by data scraped from Android devices, the expanded access via Instagram, the leaps in tech, etc for those born after ‘95.
So buckle up, folks. It’s all bad.
They're called shadow profiles. They were also using information from the contact information in your phonebook.
I have one haven't used it years. But don't delete it because of friends but now reminds me I need to delete it like asap.
I hate whatsapp, but I "have to" use it, because otherwise I would be unable to talk to 98% of my RL contacts.
I pretty much have to have some form of Meta account or else I'm considered "shady" by some people. I haven't even logged in in years, but just saying the username is appaeently enough.
I try to limit letting that kind of person into my life.
I've seen goddamn ads for apartments that require sharing FB/Instagram contact info.