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Good for them, I’m not touching it with 2 meter pole though.
It’s hard to decide whether meta or musk are worse
Meta will sell your data to third parties, and if you’re in Europe, that data will also be in the US. And Musk… well, it’s Musk, so no further comments.
Meta won’t really sell your data to 3Ps. Giving up 1P data is such a bad business model.
They will sell their targeting audiences created using your data to advertisers.
If you are thinking about Cambridge Analytica, they shared the data with an Academic under the agreement to be used in academic research only. It’s still wrong, because you can provide a cleaned, privacy-safe® version, but the assholes just shared it.
The main problem with Meta is that they are super aggressive in collecting any and all data about you and then link it to you. That’s why DMA is super important.
Isn’t it the case that by EU law, European citizen’s data can’t unknowingly be shared with foreign countries? I remember that Google analytics can’t be usedi n the EU because of that.
Thanks to GDPR, data from EU citizens can’t go to third countries, unless there is an agreement between such countries, and even in that case, the data has to be minimal and essential (no health data, no race data, no political data, and so on).
But meta doesn’t care, it does whatever the hell it wants to do.
ESH
I don’t know man. On one hand, we all know how shitty Facebook has become. On the other hand, even Zuckerburg at least didn’t limit its users to see only 500, 600 posts a day. Not to say FB is any better, but we are talking the bottom of the barrel here so…one better than another is not really that relevant.
Well, this explains the cage match. I’d heard about it, but I don’t generally seek out billionaire dick-swinging.
I’ll be interested to see what that is all about, especially since it’s supposed to be compatible with ActivityPub platforms. Of course, it’s Meta we’re talking about here, so there’s reason for skepticism, but I’m interested to see how things play out regardless.
lots of fedi admins have already pledged to defederate from any upcoming Meta projects.
I don’t know why I would want to use a worse version of facebook