The only mainstream social network I use is Instagram for class group chat.
I'm still waiting for LineageOS for SM-A536B though.
Social Media is not the only problem, it's far worse than that and you will not solve it leaving social media. Your employers get all the information about you from what is called 'data brokers' which are the ones who buy the data collected by all the apps that you install in your phone and sell it to everyone interested, not only companies trying to sell you something, but also employers like the case you posted and also state agencies, who dodge in this way breaking the law by spying you. That's the big business of data collection. Here an investigation made by german journalists How data brokers sell our location data
All too aware of that. Fortunately I use nothing mainstream at all. For example:
Is that GrapheneOS?
Correct.
cries in having a Samsung phone with Exynos in it
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Exynos bad, they should stop putting it.
Yeah, the solution to apps selling your data is using only free software, the only problem that still remains is that your mobile network provider also sells your location data.
The only solution to that is permanent airplane mode (on an OS you can trust to do so) and just not having the phone on you most of the time.
Yeah. The solution to that is using WiFi all over, but that's not feasible for most people. That's the 1 thing I'm still stuck with. There's no 2 ways about it. Either you keep feeding your location to your mobile service provider to have internet everywhere, or you sacrifice that convenience and go completely dark. Fortunately the option of VOIP for voice calls instead of a voice Sim is available, which lessens the issue a bit. I use JMP.chat for that. Seriously thinking about getting their data Sim as well.
I left my final mainstream social media with the Reddit API debacle back in 2023. And before that, I left Facebook and Twitter in 2018.
Funny how involved I was on Twitter and especially Reddit prior to summer 2023, yet barely noticed when I deleted my accounts.
I can only say that I'm all the better after removing them all from my life. My mental health has improved dramatically since then.
You mean, there are places that don't monitor their employees' social media accounts to compare against?
I believe my company doesn't, but maybe it's just that I don't have Amy which allowed me to live blissfully unaware that they do 😁
The last three or four companies I've worked for did. Usually a month or so in HR would want to know why I didn't tell them about my birbsite account. They also usually asked why I didn't update my LinkedIn page to say I was working there now.
Wtf is this page
Keep scrolling below to see how the employee responded to all this nonsense.
I actually did, you have to scroll for like a minute past comments (?) and ads to see the rest of this "article". Wow, hello future entry on my block list.
i didn't encounter any adds; are you using ublock origin? chrome?
I checked again and you are right, what I saw was just some other article images. I do use ublock so I should have been tipped off that those shouldn't be ads. Still the rest is true and cutting an article for some weird kind of user engagement is very silly.
yes, it's old news to me and probably you; but i think it bares repeating since there will always be someone who didn't already know.
I always move straight to the screen shots. These are feeds I get via RSS, so I never actually "browse" that site.
lemmy has taught me that any platform that touts itself as "general interest" is suspicious because it means that they have an interest attracting as many people as possible regardless of whether or not there's any reason for them to be on there.
like today's tech companies; they want you to become dependent to some degree on their platform to use your attention as leverage for advertisements and investors so that you'll be less likely to leave the platform.
another revenue stream that they leverage your captive attention for is for data harvesting and you need lots of people to make it worthwhile (hence the "general interest") and when that happens, your employers; HRIS/candidate tracking systems; and your government can also purchase that data too and know what you're up to like in the examples that this article shows.
I keep pushing as many people as possible in my life away from all these dangers (I genuinely consider them actual dangers) precisely because of that. It's mind blowing how most people just don't care, until they find themselves in a spot like this one, and even then, they don't even reassess the potential consequences of remaining inside those environments.
... until they find themselves in a spot like this one, and even then, they don’t even reassess the potential consequences of remaining inside those environments.
the most recent version i've seen of this are my colleague software developers who don't give a rat's ass about the impact that their work will have on humanity so long as they keep getting paid almost a quarter of a millions dollars per year to pay for their investments and put their children is the best possible schools.
i think that external pressures will always force a person-vs-person conflict like your and my example to enable the goals of the platform.
I guess that's the price we pay for living in a mostly capitalist world. It sucks though. At least I've been able to keep my kids out of those things for 11 and 9 years. That alone I consider a win.
it is and it's the most that you can do given our situation.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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