WTF is this! Meta new app

So many people are going to sign up and never look at this once.

Yeah this is truly insane. This will never be on my phone. It also helps that Europe thinks this is bullshit as well and it’s not available here.

It's like a CVS receipt of privacy invasion.

Why are they collecting financial information??

YSK Meta is also a threat to the privacy of fediverse users, if there are fediverse instances that remain federated with Meta.

Ross Schulman, senior fellow for decentralization at digital rights nonprofit the Electronic Frontier Foundation, notes that if Threads emerges as a massive player in the fediverse, there could be concerns about what he calls “social graph slurping." Meta will know who all of its users interact with and follow within Threads, and it will also be able to see who its users follow in the broader fediverse. And if Threads builds up anywhere near the reach of other Meta platforms, just this little slice of life would give the company a fairly expansive view of interactions beyond its borders.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-threads-privacy-decentralization/

What a nightmare I wish My family stopped using meta apps

Meta apps and shady Flashlight/Calculator apps, the two at 80mph, who wins?

I am so happy that I’ve deleted my facebook account about 5 years ago and never since then used any app from Zuckercamp.

I still have to make a few more accounts with one of my proton mail addresses and I will de-google myself almost completely, with only youtube as an exception.

For now.

Beuatiful spyware

I love that it states that you can request for your data to be deleted with no explicit wording stating that it will be

Fuck Facebook.

You... are shocked about that? Really?

Just a reminder for anyone using Facebook and Facebook messenger,they are separate apps and you need to set permissions to your liking on them separately. By default they both have pretty much everything enabled.

Not touching that. Haha.

Can’t download it in the EU anyway. Probably for the best

That is just… not something I’d ever want to even come near, much less touch with a 10 foot pole.

What do you expect from an app named after the notoriously grim British movie about a nuclear holocaust.

So, a standard Meta app.

I am surprised the font is not tiny.

If server admins federate with Meta, I will be looking for a new server.

Why are people so surprised? Did you expect anything less?

And then idiot YouTubers and other shills be like "oooh look at all my engagement" and shrug this shit off at most.

This list looks about right to me

Holy fuck

This should not be allowed. Anywhere. This is insane and scary, considering the vast majority will simply not give a shit and install anyway.

Would an android user not be able to restrict the vast majority of these pulls?

Meta being meta

Can you opt-out in the drop down?

Everything i expect

app store: Please check your data security failures.

facebook: thinks

facebook: I'll take the lot!

I fell for the hype and down loaded to see what it was about. I didn’t read that!! What does the financial info mean? What level of detail do they have access to? Like for credit score is that info on my phone or are they getting access to a credit card app? Stealing info while I’m logged into app?

I could be wrong but doesn’t the Facebook and Instagram app collect this same amount of information as well?

are a lot of these options not opt-in at the system level? on iOS at least. i know they can approximate a lot using ad tracking but not health info on the phone if you don’t allow it

Pretty much as expected. :)

Waiting for threads to be available through other ActivePub instances like mastodon. Being free from giants, yet having the possibility to access their content.

To be fair, I bet most apps probably track the same. But meta (probably for legal reasons) has to tell you about it.