So many people are going to sign up and never look at this once.
and that’s probably the scariest part
What’s crazy is even Instagram and WhatsApp don’t have this many permissions.
IG and WhatsApp definitely still get all the telemetry they need - just through other methods or through OS level permission loopholes unfortunately
No because that would hinder their ability to dump information about everything they’re doing and who they’re with for attention.
It’s like a CVS receipt of privacy invasion.
Yeah this is truly insane. This will never be on my phone. It also helps that Europe thinks this is bullshit as well and it’s not available here.
Why are they collecting financial information??
they want everything… even they got banned in Europe because of this
They weren’t banned, they just preemptively pulled out because they knew they couldn’t pull this shit in europe.
thanks for the correction
Available in the U.K. Brexit was such a bad idea. Smh
Is this what convinced you of that?
I knew that a long time ago, it’s just one more thing
Id guess adspace for rich people can be sold at a premium.
YSK Meta is also a threat to the privacy of fediverse users, if there are fediverse instances that remain federated with Meta.
Ross Schulman, senior fellow for decentralization at digital rights nonprofit the Electronic Frontier Foundation, notes that if Threads emerges as a massive player in the fediverse, there could be concerns about what he calls “social graph slurping." Meta will know who all of its users interact with and follow within Threads, and it will also be able to see who its users follow in the broader fediverse. And if Threads builds up anywhere near the reach of other Meta platforms, just this little slice of life would give the company a fairly expansive view of interactions beyond its borders.
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-threads-privacy-decentralization/
What a nightmare I wish My family stopped using meta apps
WhatsApp is the real drama.
People should use Signal instead. I don’t care if anybody doesn’t like it, it’s what I use and if you want to talk to me you’ll fuckin’ use it.
Never installing any Facebook garbage apps.
Installing one more app is not much of an ask. You’re not asking them to abandon the others
I’ve tried that for a few years now. Sadly you’ll lose a ton of contacts.
You would only lose contact with the people who didn’t care enough to keep in touch. That’s a win-win situation.
It’s not just people who know, knew but also new connections that could’ve gone somewhere given enough time and energy.
Being the first to fight for privacy in my circles has amputated so many of my possibilities.
Legislation needs to pas so I don’t have to tell everyone that I don’t want my damn picture on the internet every time someone pulls a phone out.
I like your approach
What do you expect from an app named after the notoriously grim British movie about a nuclear holocaust.
Haha good one! I was wondering why that name sounded familiar and this is it.
Very good film to see… once and never ever unsee or forget the images, isn’t it?
Meta apps and shady Flashlight/Calculator apps, the two at 80mph, who wins?
Beuatiful spyware
Would an android user not be able to restrict the vast majority of these pulls?
Yes, I have achieved this by not installing any meta apps.
The true sigma move
Sure, but many apps will refuse to work when not giving in to their demands. If an app does that I uninstall it faster than I installed it though
Fuck Facebook.
app store: Please check your data security failures.
facebook: thinks
facebook: I’ll take the lot!
So, a standard Meta app.
If server admins federate with Meta, I will be looking for a new server.
I fell for the hype and down loaded to see what it was about. I didn’t read that!! What does the financial info mean? What level of detail do they have access to? Like for credit score is that info on my phone or are they getting access to a credit card app? Stealing info while I’m logged into app?
They can even read which apps you have installed in your phone
