Anyone else check it out? They want access to everything. And there is no website, only an app. Yikes.

  • eroc1990
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    231 year ago

    An image showing the data safety guidelines for Threads, as provided by the Google Play Store.

    That is a lot of data collection…

  • godless
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    111 year ago

    Yeah I saw the list posted somewhere, had a chuckle, and went on my merry way. There’s a reason this kraken of an app is banned in the EU.

    A somewhat tech savvy user can probably use App Ops and Storage Isolation to restrict all of the data and spoof the rest, but luckily I don’t even feel tempted. Never got the appeal of Twitter, can’t be bothered to even try Mastodon, and Threads, just no.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      It’s not even banned. Meta didn’t release it there knowing full well they’d get penalised in some way.

  • iasad12
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    101 year ago

    Also, 78 MBs for a Twitter clone is ridiculous (and alarming)! Twitter asks for 36 MBs while Mastodon only 1.6 MBs!

  • @[email protected]
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    Yeah, it’s why I started staying away from the official social media or company apps.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Yeah. The insistence of Facebook to use their Messenger app on mobile is a big reason I’ve always been suspicious of it.