• @[email protected]
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    33 months ago

    To serve you relevant ads, Meta will use your activity on Threads and Instagram, the posts you interact with, your email address, and “your activity from off Meta technologies,” according to a support page.

    Do I read it right in that they’ll try to follow you around Fediverse, aside from monitoring you on every site they already have a nose on?

    De-fe-de-rate.

    • @[email protected]
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      23 months ago

      Probably more about their general user tracking than that tbh. Meta has always had profiles for everyone because of Facebook/meta integrations on every website

    • @[email protected]
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      -23 months ago

      You not only misinterpreted the description, but then you proposed a measure completely useless to either the real situation or your imagined one.

      You did lemmy proud.

      • @[email protected]
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        23 months ago

        Eh, my only complaint is that they lumped the “r” in with the “ate.” The “r” is part of the previous syllable.

        That said, I highly doubt defederating would actually solve anything. If they want to scrape, they’ll scrape.

        • @[email protected]
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          23 months ago

          Exactly, all info on lemmy is public, defederation would help neither with 3rd party cookie tracking (the real situation) nor with tracking on other instances (what the user imagined they are doing).

    • @[email protected]
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      23 months ago

      I remember the heady days when I thought this was the final step of enshittification. Such simple and innocent times.

      • @[email protected]
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        13 months ago

        The enshittification is carried over from other products. They’re meta, so anything they launch is partly along the path already, because they can artificially boost the launch numbers with cross-platform promotion, and because everyone already knows what assholes they are, they’re starting off with a lot of goodwill lost.

        Basically, just slapping a new name and a new account creation process on some new features in their social network, is not enough to make it a new network.

  • @[email protected]
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    23 months ago

    As someone not using Threads this is a big surprise. I mean I’m surprised it didn’t already have ads.

  • Admiral Patrick
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    13 months ago

    My instance preemptively defederated from Threads, but I’m assuming those ads are going to be served to Threads users via API, right, and not federated out?

    • katy ✨
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      13 months ago

      If Meta threw up ads as ActivityPub objects they’d probably be blocked so fast by every instance.

  • @[email protected]
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    3 months ago

    So, owned by a collaborator and a shitty user experience.

    Also, who names their app after a downer post-apocalyptic film where everyone dies?

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      3 months ago

      “Our new GestureSupport(“Gestapo”) means you can now upvote by striking your arm up and to the right…”