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No Thanks—Why I'm Avoiding Instagram Threads.
(lemmy.world)
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Honestly if you're using Lemmy all this information is already publicly accessible, any public forum isnt privacy friendly
Sure, the information we post here is public, but you can remain anonymous if you want.
I’m not talking about the public stuff, because that’s not where the money is for Meta. Here is the stuff the Thread app collects
Now juxtapose that with what the Lemmy app collects.
Oh, it’s worse than that even. Tap on that block and see the whole list. There are like ~170 separate data points listed, it’s insane. They’re saving everything!
Sorry misunderstood your comment, yeah Threads/Meta is god awful for collecting data wouldn't want to touch them personally
There definitely is money in it for Meta though, just yesterday there was quite a popular post showing the types of data that is available to both users and instance owners. If one wanted to they could use things such as your upvotes and down votes to build a sort of profile about you, your political affiliations, interests etc
Meta isn't just a problem, ad companies can easily set up an instance to start collecting data from other servers
What's surprising to me is that the android version of threads has no such requirements. It asks for contacts, camera, location, photos, notification, and mic permissions, and you don't need to enable them to use the app