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in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn’t use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing “hundreds of pages of Facebook documents,” reported that Facebook “gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.”
Surprising? No. Appalling? Yes.
Oh boy. Some of you people watch too many movies.
Let’s get some basic stuff established:
But sure. I’ll give you this: If your threat model is dodging SWAT team flashbangs, I doubt using Signal is much use to you at that point. That just wasn’t what this thread was talking about.
That’s what I was referring to. I’m glad you live in a country where that scenario seems movie-like but I live in the land of the free.
Which was a response to this
Yeah I went overboard.