"... the website loads in a special browser built into the app, rather than your phone’s default browser. In 2022, privacy researcher Felix Krause found that Meta injects special “keylogging” JavaScript onto the website you’re visiting that allows the company to monitor everything you type and tap on, including passwords. Other apps including TikTok do the same thing."
I don't have Facebook, Instagram nor WhatsApp on my phone. I've also enabled DuckDuckGo App Tracking Protection. Does that mean I'm safe from Meta's "Link History" and Metapixel tracking?
@noellemitchell@mxtthxw for anyone who is reading this, please make sure you're using #Firefox with #uBlock Origin and also if you're up for the learning curve, #LibRedirect, though that's not really helpful if you have to log in.
I would also like to suggest trying to migrate over to #PixelFed as an #Instagram replacement and #Friendica as a #Facebook replacement. It took me years to start using my #Mastodon account, the first step is creating it.
I wouldn't want to ascribe maliciousness where incompetence could be the more likely outcome but this would only translate like this under 2 conditions:
a constantly learning/re-learning translation model
editorially
The former seems unusual because most words don't change in translation based on current events ... unless Meta is of the opinion that what words mean is based on their users opinions.
I also tested this phrase on a few LLMs & none of them translated to that.
@SpookieRobieTheCat@aral I am surprised how their apps aren't banned in EU. Their every decision is violating users' rights. And when they are legally forced to change, they always do it in the most malicious compliance way possible.
@GottaLaff My teen is always telling me I need to reinstall it. It’s how she & her friends communicate. 🤦♀️ But I just cannot bear it. It is so obviously promoting hate & chaos. I followed a lot of disability/medical accounts. Almost every time I would post a positive comment of support, it would immediately get flagged as spam & removed. I would send review requests & feedback comments, but they were never looked at. The racist, nazi, violent threats were okay though. 🤢 nope!
Not seeing any threads.net accounts save as being inside names of twitter accounts copied using bird.makeup, so hopefully Kolektiva has already handled this. Will keep an eye on this
The discourse in the last few days regarding #Meta and #Threads gives the impression that the entire Fediverse is already blocking Threads. I wanted to take a look at the numbers and they speak a different language. The data source for my calculation is https://fedipact.veganism.social/?v=2.
Measured by user count, 76 % of all users are federated with Threads. Remaining instances with 24 % of users either block Threads or are limited (e.g. infosec.exchange).
@mialikescoffee that just means a few very large instances are federating with threads and a large number of smaller instances are defederating or limited.
In other words, it’s a representation of the real world where a large majority of people just follow trends set by people of influence and are content with just belonging, and many different minority groups are trying to loosely hang together to form a defense against their complete eradication by the enormous majority’s inertia.
I'm going to go visit #Meta in San Francisco tomorrow for their "Threads Interoperating in the Fediverse Data Dialogue". Not exactly sure what to expect, or who else is participating, but I figure I can listen and learn and make up my mind afterwards.
They say it's Chatham House rules, meaning I can post this and whatever else interesting transpires. No NDA involved.
Regardless where you stand on the meta-and-the-fediverse question, I think having more info is better.
@renchap@evan@supergrobi@J12t I also mentioned (on Threads) that I’d love to talk with them - in response to a post they made about their potential API - saw lots of engagement on the post, but no follow-up despite providing my direct contact details.
@andypiper@renchap@evan any chance you have too 3 bullet items on the top of your mind what should happen between mastodon and threads, and why. To use as talking points tomorrow if the chance arises.
@downey I think a lot of us non-admins just want to enjoy the ability to communicate with our friends on Threads. ActivityPub can be used by anyone. It's an open protocol, yet somehow a lot of people seek to make it open for everyone, just not for the people we don't agree with.
Link to a free version of our exclusive story on propaganda scholar Joan Donovan’s whistleblower complaint accusing Harvard of firing her as it chased huge grants from Meta. (You do have to enter an email address to read it.) https://wapo.st/3Nb5tm8#misinformation#meta#harvard
@rwg
3) Account choice servers
The overlooked 3rd grouping that believe agency should not be taken away & decided centrally by sys admins yet. Letting users decide for themselves with block mute tools can certainly be seen as a very noncentralised way to respond.
There are clever technical shadings also like limiting threads.net rather than defederating it.
Free choice.
Freedom of association.
It's understandable that some servers want to pause before centrally removing choice in this case.
Donc le gars qui veut vous convaincre que vous devez venir sur son nouveau réseau social Threads, explique tranquillou que pour lui les negationistes et autres propagateurs de fake news ou de propagande nazi et antisémite ne seront pas interdits sur son truc, parce que "ils ne se trompent pas intentionnellement "
"TikTok? Last year after FB worked years to keep it sealed, a court unsealed its secret app audit. It showed 86,961 developers in CHINA HAD ACCESS TO ALL OF OUR PERSONAL DATA…yet crickets. This is the same app audit Zuckerberg promised Congress after concerns American’s personal data had been readily mined in RU. Throw in IR, NK, you name it. Press didn’t dig in. A good source told me DOJ & Congress hadn’t ever even seen this forensic audit."
-J Kint
Indeed. Although, most of "this place" has quote boosts, and has for a while, it's only Mastodon that doesn't. But hey now that #Meta has implemented quote boosts (including supporting Misskey's implementation) maybe that'll finally lead to progress?
@jdp23@inquiline for what it’s worth: I was on the team that launched QTs at Twitter and I’ve always thought we made a mistake with that feature, to the point where I felt real guilt. The abuse it introduced on the platform was absolutely awful, especially because of how easy it made targeting people with deep native support for linking to tweets.
That linked post is probably the first thing I’ve read in years that made me open my mind to the good stuff, too.
A woman from Oklahoma was posting pro-Palestinian posts on Facebook and Zuckerberg handed her posts over to the FBI, banned all her accounts, and the FBI visited her at her home. The lengths the U.S. government will go to should worry everyone: #Meta
“Providing this data as input for Lavender undermines their claim that #WhatsApp is a private messaging app,” he wrote. “It is beyond obscene and makes #Meta complicit in Israel’s killings of ‘pre-crime’ targets and their families, in violation of international humanitarian law and Meta’s publicly stated commitment to human rights.
