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Yikes.
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.
People complain about Lemmy's privacy policy, but... I mean... gestures
They misspelled their service, should be: threats (to your privacy).
User: So how many permissions does your app need?
Threads: Yes!
This is why I ditched Facebook many years ago. The first time they started to change their TOS and privacy stuff I noped out.
I know meta is shit anyways, but what is the idea behind their Twitter competitor, like what is their selling point?
i don't know why anyone would want to go from something as bad as twitter to a Facebook owned twitter
That's gonna be a NOPE for me, chief.
Sadly people will still jump there. It will eventually overtake Mastodon in numbers because people are dependent on the convenience of walled gardens.
Meta knows they can’t fix their terrible privacy record so they might as well milk it.
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.
No, this is the data they would like to collect from those foolish enough to grant it.
Financial Info, Identifiers, Sensitive Info... Woudn't it be easier just to give them my wallet and passport.
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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.
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
do they also need nude pictures of me?, or with the blood type and a medical history is enough
