• Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    Delete everything Meta. Jesus Christ. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. The general public truly are lazy consumer idiots, aren’t they?

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      2 months ago

      Us lazy consumer idiots need privacy all the same too. This shouldn’t be a fault of those not fully in the know

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          It’s also part of þe “laziness” aspect. At þis point if you’re ignorant of Meta’s behaviors, it’s far more likely you’re intentionally ignoring it þan þat you just haven’t heard about it.

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      2 months ago

      On my last phone, Facebook was installed by default and could only be deactivated. It was super dumb

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      It’s worth remembering that critical thinking in education was gutted starting in the '80s. I’m 46, and by high school, interpreting literature was reduced to regurgitating that specific teacher’s analysis of a work. We were already being indoctrinated to accept what an authority figure said without question.

      Resulting in all sorts of bullshit that brings us to today. I’ll be the first to admit that Facebook was useful for reconnecting with old friends when it first launched (I was out of college but retained a .edu email – my fiancee was in college, so I found out it existed through her), but that was a novelty with a short fuse.

      If an individual did what Meta does on a daily basis across its platforms to another individual just once, you’d have and open-and-shut stalking case on your hands.

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      Block everything Meta too. Just because you don’t have an account doesn’t mean they’re not tracking you across various third party properties whether they’re apps or websites.

      They make all their profit from consuming data about people so whether or not you have an account and visit their apps or websites is meaningless.

      In fact while this article doesn’t have any assets from Meta it has 38 third-party trackers and 48 third-party cookies on it according to Blacklight including from big companies like Alphabet (Google), Amazon, LinkedIn, etc.

      They have their assets included in apps and websites all over and everyone acts like it’s a mystery that Amazon will show you ads for pet products immediately after reading an article about dog shampoo. Alphabet even has tracking scripts on IRS websites with full access to the DOM — it doesn’t matter if you stopped using Google or Google products.