To be fair, I bet most apps probably track the same. But meta (probably for legal reasons) has to tell you about it.
Without asking for the permissions they might not get far though
Just a reminder for anyone using Facebook and Facebook messenger,they are separate apps and you need to set permissions to your liking on them separately. By default they both have pretty much everything enabled.
This list looks about right to me
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.
Why are people so surprised? Did you expect anything less?
And then idiot YouTubers and other shills be like “oooh look at all my engagement” and shrug this shit off at most.
Meta being meta
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?
Waiting for threads to be available through other ActivePub instances like mastodon. Being free from giants, yet having the possibility to access their content.
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
What OS is that? Graphene? That feature looks hella handy
Beuatiful spyware
Not touching that. Haha.
So, a standard Meta app.
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.
I like your approach
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.
Installing one more app is not much of an ask. You’re not asking them to abandon the others
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/
Isn’t this information that can be just as meaningfully scraped from the Fediverse as it is? And if they truly need to operate an instance to scrape that data whats to stop them from simply operating an instance and failing to advertise that it’s owned and operated by Meta?
