Ars TechnicaHow Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’)
Here’s what is collected by Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social.
HakonS 🇳🇴@arstechnica Maybe update page adding your own website. You do collect quite an extensive list of personal information yourself! #privacy
Wes@hs @arstechnica while agree it’s pretty bad the data they collect on a website, you can opt-out. That option is only available for the app by not installing it
@Justwes @arstechnica You can opt out from permissions on apps too, but there are permissions you can't opt out from. Just like for the webpage. I don't mean any of them are better, just that both are privacy hostile. And btw. How do you opt out from the "always active" cookies?
@hs @arstechnica always active cookies is something that can be controlled at the browser level but so much breaks for the user. Like disabling JavaScript, it limits what can happen by so much breaks for usability
@Justwes @arstechnica ...and this is something an average user or child is supposed to do? You mean that webpages filling their site with cookies are innocent, but the users are to blame if they don't know how to configure their browser correctly at a paranoia-level? Sorry, but I don't agree with you. Non-technical people should also be able to keep their personal information safe.
@hs @arstechnica if you want to argue about all of this (waves hand at everything) then go for it, I’ll not participate.
My only point at this start was the disingenuous comparison you made. Opt-out vs the iOS App Store report card.
And I’m not defending either entity in their behaviour. It sucks for all involved.
@Justwes @arstechnica The meaning with my original post was the irony of an article about privacy, where the first thing that popped up was a privacy invasive warning where everything was enabled (screenshot was after I disabled it). Nothing more, nothing less.