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Why just blocking Meta's Threads won't be enough to protect your privacy once they join the fediverse (privacy.thenexus.today)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's not the question here.

The 2 problems here are

that F*book scrapes this user's personal data from other random places (very illegal)

and that they change the FB profile without asking the user specifically (should be illegal, but maybe they find an excuse in their terms & conditions)