JoJoThe Zuck suck is in full swing.
That’s insane
FiripuHow did you block all that? Can duckduckgo block apps from accessing that data? There's no website version of threads yet right?
NyaaDuckDuckGo has a tracker blocker in their Android app that runs as a local vpn on your phone to filter tracking stuffs from other apps
That list reads like a law enforcement surveillance request, wtf.
Threads: I see everything.
I See Everything - Arnold Schwarzenegger
starlingukThere's a reason it's not allowed in the EU.
JoeKroganNot sure why anyone would install that garbage. Even a one off install to check it out means it will upload lots of data.
BraveSirZaphodSome people simply do not care.
Is it really that hard to understand that some people like the idea of participating in a community with all their friends and favorite content creators, and find the idea of getting access to this for free at the cost of some privacy that they don't hugely value to be an acceptable enough trade?
"some" privacy lol
Zoomers don't value privacy at all, and that's a huge problem.
Maybe, but ultimately, that's a decision that every person gets to make for themselves.
the same reason why people are not using adblockers in current year
It’s easy to missjedge how much of our society are just mindless drones.
fearoutHoly shit. I'd ask how the fuck is this even legal, but seeing EU's reaction I guess it really kinda isn't
dedaleSocial media is part of state surveillance and manipulation. Why wouldn't it be legal?
toffiFunny enough the screen density thing could just be display optimization, did some web development and that would’ve been useful.
But hoy shit the rest is really bad. Good thing I live in the EU and won’t be tempted.
It’s likely used for fingerprinting, not optimization.
why not both?
Yeah, screen density or screen resolution is fairly common to track specifically because it's useful for sorting out UI problems.
"People with 1080p phones use the app once and never come back" is useful information from a product development standpoint. It's not super useful for most user profiling purposes.
Unless you're selling cell phone ads, that is. And, well, Meta's an ad company.
Instagram in app browser user agents include your devices resolution and colour info, so I think you’re right on those features.
And for a video app checking if headphones are plugged in is actually useful (Apollo used to deal with this well).
Needing your health days in the permissions though???
ℕ𝕠𝕓𝕠𝕕𝕪 𝕆𝕗𝕗𝕚𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝 ✔️“sorry, our dev uploaded debug version as production release”
RoundcatFeDiVeRsE hAs NoThInG tOo WoRrY aBoUt
hyperThat tracks about everything it possibly can just for the sake of it. I despise Meta so much…
The list is just a list.
The VPN just blocked requests to Facebook domains and it says that it might have contained that data. But it has no idea what data was inside. Maybe was filled with tracking or maybe it was just requesting something else
I mean here is a screenshot of the data the Threads iOS app collects:
This checks literally every vector the app could collect data from.
smokinjoeIs this the duckduckgo browser?
Yeah it is
Nice, thanks!
That’s insane, well I know one thing. This is making me want to go download the DuckDuckGo browser.
Krompus
optissimaShill🤖
BonzoWhat’s your preferred private search engine?
Personally, I just found out about the Brave one. Giving that a try and it seems pretty good so far. Has an AI summarize at the top of the results which worked pretty well when I searched for a news item an hour ago.
HominineA public Searxng instance is a great way to get some privacy back. We can run searches against multiple engines and settings stay in the local browser. Image searches can be proxied as well if the particular instance allows for it.
Enjoy!
0235In the same week switching to DDG browser and to Lemmy. God dayum I wish there was a good alternative for Gmail.
I switched to protonmail. It’s especially good if you have your own domain name like [email protected] because you can tie that to your protonmail account.
I like it a lot so far.
vraylleI started using #Threads
Ah, I see, there's the problem....
Yeah for real... are these people fucking retarded? There was a mass Facebook exodus for a reason.... does nobody remember?
These people are so low info they don't even know Facebook owns Instagram
People left Facebook because it got overwhelmed with their parents and grandparents, not because they ever cared about privacy.
Sanctusin best BfME2 goblin voice: The Eye watches!
Holy crap are you kidding? Mastodon IIRC requires zero priviliges/personal information to run.
Also, what the hell does it need “headphone status” for?
Honestly not defending them because the android app can potentially track your credit score, but this is probably to pause videos when headphones unplug and perform similar actions.
Tag365But it seems like DuckDuckGo is blocking them, which implies the system that’s tracking that is trying to upload that data onto a server, not just using it for pausing videos and stuff.
Right, it wouldn’t need to communicate to corporate, just to the app itself.
You both are probably right I forgot this was the android app. Meta has a habit of sending everything they could possibly ever get incase someone wants to buy it. Although I could see them using that for BI purposes to be like X Users were wearing headphones on these types of posts, but that may be giving them too much credit.
danNo - DuckDuckGo blocks the app from getting the data. It doesn’t know if the data is being sent over the internet or not. Seeing headphone status in its list just means the app tried to check the headphone status, not that it tried to send it anywhere.
Bluetooth headphones have unique identifying information. Another data point for apps that the headphone jack doesn’t provide.
Could just be another piece of data that can build a more unique fingerprint for you.
Determine if you’re a candidate for headphone ads.
otter beeabsolutely wild, was going to (naively) give it a go, but I work on telemetry for a big platform and cannot in good faith use this product.
Genuine question: what made you work on that if you see telemetry as a threat?
If I based my concerns off of what I worked on, I’d actually probably be cool with it. Things are generally taken very seriously and the general discourse around how things are handled (at least to my knowledge) are wildly exaggerated. However, knowing just how things work end to end and how Meta tends to handle things, I think accepting something like the terms they lay out will give them freedom to do whatever they want with whatever they want.
That might seem obvious to most folks but I guess it’s more just be saying yeah they’ll take as much as you can give them.
I hate Zuck, but I’m happy to see him destroy Muskrat.
So just don’t use it?
whoami“They “trust me”. Dumb fucks.” - Mark Zuckerberg c. early 2000s: en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg#2000's
Why anyone would try a ‘new’ Facebook product at this point is mind boggling.
That’s egregious, not even trying to hide it lmao.
Wait, they’re trying to check the status of your headphone? That’s way too far. Why do they need to know if the headphone’s plugged in?
Maybe they increase the likelihood weight of ads you’ll see from headphone companies, or groups in that space.
It’s also just straight up a darling about you that someone out there will pay Facebook to collect so they can profile you and upsell you on more shit.
That’s how all this crap works unfortunately.
Just for fun. 🤪