Meta Shatters Lobbying Record as House Passes TikTok Ban: Instagram owner Meta spent more than ever on lobbing Congress and the White House as legislation to potentially ban its competitor TikTok

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Meta Shatters Lobbying Record as House Passes TikTok Ban: Instagram owner Meta spent more than ever on lobbing Congress and the White House as legislation to potentially ban its competitor TikTok - Mander

Lemmy

Shit, we should also ban insta, fb, and google places while we’re at it.

“but muh marketplace!” “but muh highschool friends I haven’t seen in a decade+!” “but muh extended family I haven’t spoken to since I was 8!”

Addicts won’t quit Meta. I’ve even seen posts on Lemmy with people defending Facebook. It’s gross.

I used to say those same things, now I basically just keep messenger as a job requirement but the rest of it can F off

marketplace is nothing but spam and scam, and those “friends” the only ones I care to talk to, use discord, or regular phone text

Isn’t messenger app the worst of them all?
Yes. Messenger collects detailed information about every device on every WiFi network you connect to, including MAC addresses, IP addresses, OS and version, device names, open ports, duration of DHCP lease on each device, and much more. It does this every time you open the app, and on every WiFi network you connect to.
Source for this? I don’t doubt it but would love to be able to reference something.
Visualized: The terrifying amount of data Facebook Messenger collects compared to Signal, iMessage, and WhatsApp

Facebook mounted a fierce attack on Apple’s new app privacy labels, accusing the company that it’s putting small businesses and the free internet in danger. …

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