Threads
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A privacy nightmare.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/threads-no-eu-launch/?guccounter=1
Information provided about the app’s privacy via mandatory disclosures required on iOS shows the app may collect highly sensitive information about users in order to profile their digital activity — including health and financial data, precise location, browsing history, contacts, search history and other sensitive information.
Given that Meta, the developer behind the app, the company formerly known as Facebook, makes its money from tracking and profiling web users to sell their attention via its behavioral advertising microtargeting tools this is hardly surprising. But it does raise questions over whether Threads will be able to launch in the European Union where the legal basis Meta had claimed for processing Facebook users’ personal data (performance of a contract) was found unlawful at the start of this year.
Meta has since switched to a claim of legitimate interest for this data-for-ads processing. But, earlier this week, the bloc’s top court piled more regional woe on Meta via a judgement on a German case referral where the Court said this legal basis is not appropriate for running Meta’s behavioral ads either and consent needs to be sought. Under current EU law, sensitive information such as health data also requires an even higher standard of explicit consent to be legally processed in order to be compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation. So Meta would need to ask and obtain specific permission for processing sensitive data like health into.
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Seen on the webz. Not that there's any real new info that hasn't been posted before, but I found the last sentence interesting and probably accurate.
Here's some of what the Threads app on iOS hands over to Meta when you click that Yeah, whatever button:
- Purchases (Purchase History)
- Financial Info (Other Financial Info)
- Location (Precise Location, Coarse Location)
- Contact Info (Physical Address, Email Address, Name,
- Phone Number, Other User Contact Info)
- User Content (Emails or Text Messages, Photos or Videos
- Audio Data, Gameplay Content, Customer Support, Other User Content)
- Search History
- Browsing History
- Health & Fitness (Health, Fitness)
Uh, no. No, I will not be creating a Threads account.
The Twitter app on iOS is better, but still terrible. Don't use official apps if you can possibly avoid it. There is a reason companies push you to use the official app, and it is not because it's better for you.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now 7-d&geo=US&q=threads,twitter&hl=en
So? One's a fucking cesspool.
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My issue with Threads is that it’s completely app based, and the number of permissions that it wants. I’m tempted to get another device for a work account that will be strictly used just for work based social media.
Me/rry/Christmas
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@LuFins-Dad said in Threads:
I’m tempted to get another device for a work account that will be strictly used just for work based social media.
A good idea, actually.
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Meta Blocks Access to its Threads App to EU Users with VPNs
Threads, Meta’s Twitter clone launched to great fanfare last week, crossing 100 million users in just five days. And this happened without Threads officially launching in the EU due to privacy concerns.
Until now, EU users have been able to various use workarounds to get the Threads app on iOS and Android and sign up. For Android users, the APK file to install the Threads app is quite easy to find, while iOS users can create a US-based App Store account to download the app.
Something happened earlier today, though. Threads users in the EU started to notice that the app was no longer working as usual, even when using a VPN. And Meta has now confirmed to TechCrunch that it has taken new measures to block Threads in the EU.
“Threads is not currently available in most countries in Europe and we’ve taken additional steps to prevent people based there from accessing it at this time. Europe continues to be an incredibly important market for Meta and we hope to make Threads available here in the future,” Meta said in a statement.
As of this writing, it appears that EU users can still access their Threads newsfeed. However, users are seeing a “post failed to upload” message when they try to create a new thread. Moreover, checking messages on any profile displays a “content not available message.”
Despite some genuine enthusiasm during its launch week, it appears that Threads is already losing some steam in its second week. According to data from Sensor Tower (via CNBC), Threads saw its number of daily users go down 20% since Saturday, and user time spent on the platform is also down 50%.
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Old news. Either they fixed this or workarounds are easy.
Despite some genuine enthusiasm during its launch week, it appears that Threads is already losing some steam in its second week. According to data from Sensor Tower (via CNBC), Threads saw its number of daily users go down 20% since Saturday, and user time spent on the platform is also down 50%.
100 million in less than a week.
This is exactly like the Snowden bullshit. Everyone's so busy condemning the thing they don't like, they don't even know what the thing they don't like actually implies.
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@Aqua-Letifer What does the thing they don't like actually imply?
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Yep. Or Facebook.
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@Aqua-Letifer What does the thing they don't like actually imply?
Social media's changing again. Explicit platforms might be going away.
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Let's see what happens with their next platform.
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I’m a bit of a dinosaur admittedly but pretty much the only place I’ve seen any discussion of Threads is here. Not a good sign
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Threads:
I’m a bit of a dinosaur admittedly but pretty much the only place I’ve seen any discussion of Threads is here. Not a good sign
You all are getting your information not by being on the platform, but by reading about it online. Which, c'mon man.
In general terms, it's interesting to me they're trying to integrate platforms, which I don't think is going away anytime soon. It's a total guess of mine, but I think we're going to see more attempts at that. It's beneficial both to users and in the social media companies who harvest user data. Especially interesting is how Threads is influencing Instagram and vice versa. There's a lot of back and forth.
In specific terms, I see more activity on the platform every day. My experience is completely contrary to these articles, but there are specific reasons for that and I think my experience is very much an outlier. I have no doubt there was a lot of initial interest that's starting to wane.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Threads:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Threads:
I’m a bit of a dinosaur admittedly but pretty much the only place I’ve seen any discussion of Threads is here. Not a good sign
You all are getting your information not by being on the platform, but by reading about it online. Which, c'mon man.
Sorry, I’m too busy fighting the Russians to spend much time on Threads
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Threads:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Threads:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Threads:
I’m a bit of a dinosaur admittedly but pretty much the only place I’ve seen any discussion of Threads is here. Not a good sign
You all are getting your information not by being on the platform, but by reading about it online. Which, c'mon man.
Sorry, I’m too busy fighting the Russians to spend much time on Threads
That's one of the reasons I go on Threads—to take a break from information related to total global decline.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Threads:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Threads:
I’m a bit of a dinosaur admittedly but pretty much the only place I’ve seen any discussion of Threads is here. Not a good sign
You all are getting your information not by being on the platform, but by reading about it online. Which, c'mon man.
In general terms, it's interesting to me they're trying to integrate platforms, which I don't think is going away anytime soon. It's a total guess of mine, but I think we're going to see more attempts at that. It's beneficial both to users and in the social media companies who harvest user data. Especially interesting is how Threads is influencing Instagram and vice versa. There's a lot of back and forth.
In specific terms, I see more activity on the platform every day. My experience is completely contrary to these articles, but there are specific reasons for that and I think my experience is very much an outlier. I have no doubt there was a lot of initial interest that's starting to wane.
Rome was not built in a day. I think we'll see increasing interest from those who value what it offers.
