People still use the Facebook spyware app on their phone?
Young people have Instagram spyware on their phones and old people have Facebook spyware.
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Same here. I wanted to include it too but it is not as quite bad as the other two(at least I hope so because I can’t avoid it). But yeah you never know with these Meta apps.
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Actually, contacts access isn’t strictly necessary! I run it with the permission disabled, and although it complains regularly, it still works. I don’t have any issues with having to remember people’s numbers either since they’re recognisable from the profile pictures and because I talk to the same few people usually
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Ahh that makes sense, with more people involved it’s harder to go by. I use Fossify Contacts, and it has an option to save contacts but to make them invisible to other apps. Perhaps that might help you somehow, I’m not sure
Uninstalled it today. If others don’t want to make the switch they will have to call me. Fuck the ignorant.
Oh so many.
My parents still do
“Nice dick bro, ever wondered how it would look in a Studio Ghibli movie?”
That brings up a good point though. Based on just the screenshot here, it seems like the user wont have a choice of what gets uploaded. People keep some pretty raunchy photos on their phone sometimes. Even kids might have some questionable photos. This is just asking for trouble.
How long will it take for a sfw kid picture with pink cloths or a splash of red to be misinterpreted, generated and tied to that user? There was already a time on youtube when blood red cloths were getting people demonetized for gore.
No telling what else they do with your pictures once they’re on Meta’s servers. Literal spyware (as if it hasn’t already been for a long time).
Imagine having your nudes accidentally ghiblified, with the originals stored indefinitely on Meta’s servers.
Imagine Palantir connecting to it and when you apply for a job denying you that due to that specific photo.
In have a simple solution to that one: don’t take nudes.
If you’re still on Facebook, you’re probably not aware of what this means or why it’s a bad thing.
Fuck Facebook. Fuck Meta. Fuck Zuckerberg. Fuck the oligarchs. Fuck LLMs/AI. Eat the Rich.
Why do any of you still use facebook?
FB itself for a community group, and Messenger for my family group chat 🤷
The group now has a presence on Discord, but there are still 26 times as many members on FB. In Hungary many people still use FB as their main social network. At most they also use Instagram, but that obviously doesn’t work for closed discussion groups.
Fediverse is still mostly Westerner.
While on Facebook, there are a ton of community from SEA, East Asia, Africa, Middle East, and so on.
Also, Facebook Lite makes the poorest people in my country to be able to access social media without using too many internet quota.
The variation of groups is far beyond any social media, even Reddit or any other community site. You can get thousands of variation of Minecraft groups that exactly suits your community needs. Or maybe just a city chicken fried seller community.
It’s fuckin’ unavoidable. I don’t use any part of it, except for Marketplace, because nothing like it exists. It doesn’t matter if it’s shit, it’s where the stuff is listed for sale.
As for the rest of it, I just quit. Conversations I used to have on messenger have moved elsewhere.
There really needs to be an organized effort from sellers and buyers to identify a solid alternative, which is hard. And post listing about moving off to that platform. A lot of existing ones have their own downsides, and there are just not enough people on them consistently and actively
I like Craigslist, and honestly it’s pretty good now. There just isn’t anyone on there as compared to Facebook marketplace.
Swappa is good for tech.
This is just gross. Just another privacy invasion from the company that decided to track and de-anonymize people around the internet even while those people were doing all the right things to prevent it.
The distressing thing for me is knowing that a lot of my friends (and exes) are exactly the sort of people that’ll just absent-mindedly click OK without reading it and share every single photo they’ve ever taken of me; photos which Facebook’s facial recognition will easily tag.
This is exactly what they expect to happen. Who reads the fine print?
Facebook works perfectly fine in browser, there’s literally no need for that shit app.
It actually doesn’t, they lock you out of messenger unless you’re using the app
Get thee to messenger.com then. Save it as a PWA and its like having the app but you give Meta as little as possible.
messenger.com does not work on mobile, except if you switch your browser to desktop mode. It’s quite hard to use it, even lots of text become smaller, so lots of people wouldn’t keep using that
Works just fine if you put your phone in desktop mode.
I use messenger on Facebook web through. I do have the app as well, but the web works.
don’t have Facebook on your phone?
better yet, don’t have Facebook?
zero sympathy for anyone caught in this, you’ve all been warned for at least a decade on what supporting Facebook means, why get upset about this now?
My mom has facebook and also has my photos.
Unless we can get EVERYONE to respect each others’ privacy, arsoning meta ceo until next one gets scared is the only option.
I always wonder why people like him are still casually strolling around while being the personified evil for 20+ years. It sure is evidence that Karma doesn’t exist.
The LAST thing I’d do with my mobile phone is install Facebook or Instagram. What a nightmare.
Unless you run a custom ROM, like LineageOS or GrapheneOS, you most probably have some Meta apps installed at system level.
This is Meta Services, as a system app which can only be disabled, on my work Samsung.
I still use Facebook (many friends and relatives still there) but only through the web browser. Never ever install an app if you can help it. FB has tried to make the web version worse and worse in the mobile browser, though, to try to force people to use the app. Comment input boxes got janky and now chat is impossible unless you check “desktop site”. These things worked fine a couple years ago.
I don’t have many pictures of myself on my own phone. Most pictures of me are on the phones of the people who took them.
Problem is if you have family on other countries most use WhatsApp for everything, it’s hard for some to not have any Meta app.
Don’t use their app. Web only.
Also, don’t use their website.
When you share with Facebook, you share with Trump.
And don’t let their Like buttons and cookies exist in other websites too
Remember when zuck asked for your nudes?
https://www.aol.com/facebook-asks-users-send-nude-144105362.html
God that’s ridiculous… the image hash depends on the image not having changed at all from the one uploaded by the user. If they’re screenshotted and cropped, or sent via a messaging platform that compresses them, they’ll be visually similar enough to not matter, and different enough to have a different hash. So, Zuck gets a free peek at your your nudes, and all you get is a false sense of security.
Yes and no, there are specific image hashing algorithms that attempt to add a likeness score.
These are already used with in the cloud to combat CSAM
Facebook is just socially accepted malware.
Because plenty of people care very little about data or security but see all those people on there… so explaining how it is bad matters little as they’ve used facebook for over a decade
Nb4 a “bug” causes that setting to be true for all users just like with the cambridge analitica scandal
