• Deathsauce@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Take me back in time to the 2000s when the most scandalous spyware was a purple gorilla virtual assistant telling awful jokes with a TTS voice.

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      1 year ago

      Off topic, but I keep hearing your comments in Max Headroom’s voice. This one was especially suitable for that!

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      1 year ago

      I remember when it was something of a privacy scandal that RealPlayer would phone home to check for updates.

      Still, end of the day, if people aren’t willing to pay for services with money, directly, then they’re going to pay with their data.

  • mightysashiman@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I had not heard of that new shit. Randomnly went to theverge, and and saw they are forcefeeding this new Threads to everyone as the “top articles”. Almost 100K posts already, 35millions accounts activated. People just don’t learn.

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    1 year ago

    I cannot comprehend how are people using these apps. Why would you want want to be tracked and targeted by a corporation like Meta is beyond me, what are you gaining in return of your whole data

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    1 year ago

    And all of it 100% unnecessary. Which is painful to think about the 30M people that signed up without caring about this.

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      1 year ago

      It isn’t unnecessary at all, if you’re Meta.

      Which is the fundamental issue with a system like that.

      The priority is in the wrong damn place.

  • JustSomeGuy@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Pfffft. What’s the drama? So you create a new insta account with no info and then pop it to Threads. They get nothing and you still get to see what’s what.