Building @Snugg - social media without surveillance.
🔒 No facial recognition
🔒 No biometric data
🔒 No ads, ever
Launch: March 2026
Founding members: https://snugg.social
Why business model determines privacy:
💰 Advertising = Must collect your data
📊 Data licensing = Must sell your data
💳 Subscription = You're the customer
Free platforms can NEVER truly respect privacy.
It's not about trust.
It's about economic incentives.
Facebook MUST violate privacy to make $160B/year.
Signal CAN protect privacy because they're non-profit.
Snugg CAN protect privacy because users pay directly.
Economics > Promises
TikTok privacy breakdown:
🇨🇳 CCP has FULL ACCESS
📋 Reads clipboard
🧬 Collects biometrics
🎯 Most addictive algorithm
📱 Cannot be trusted
This isn't speculation.
This is documented by security researchers.
If you're using TikTok for anything sensitive, assume the Chinese government can see it.
Because they can.
I compared 20+ platforms on privacy.
The results are brutal.
OUT OF 20+ PLATFORMS:
🔴 14 are EXTREME RISK (avoid)
🟡 6 are MODERATE RISK (caution)
🟢 2 are LOW RISK (acceptable)
🔵 2 are BUILT FOR PRIVACY (trustworthy)
Only Signal and Snugg are actually designed for privacy from the ground up.
Everything else is surveillance with marketing.
Full comparison: https://snugg.social/en/blog/platform-comparison-chart
83% of people are interested in an alternative to mainstream social media.
The demand is real.
The audience exists.
The question is: who's building it?
Snugg is. Join us: https://snugg.social
May 2024: UK government investigated Snapchat for failing to protect children's privacy.
The finding was serious enough they threatened to shut down features in the UK.
This is why regulation matters.
Snapchat promised photos would disappear. They do.
But metadata doesn't.
For 30 days, Snapchat tracks: WHO you talk to, WHEN, WHERE, HOW OFTEN.
They don't need to read your messages when they know everything else.
Full investigation: https://snugg.social/en/blog/snapchat-real-privacy-problem
Instagram 2010: Photos from people you follow, chronological, zero ads
Instagram 2024: One ad every 23 seconds, algorithm, strangers in your feed
They changed the deal. You didn't agree.
We're building what Instagram and Facebook used to be: https://snugg.social
Meta makes $60/year from each US user.
To extract that value, they show you:
121,545 ads per year
120,815 suggested posts per year
201 hours of unwanted content
Is $60 worth 13 waking days of your life?
Did an experiment: counted every ad on Instagram + Facebook for one hour.
Result: 147 ads + 146 suggested posts from strangers.
Only 43% of my feed was content I chose to see.
"Free" costs 13 full waking days per year (average US user).
Full data: https://snugg.social/en/blog/instagram-47-ads-per-hour
