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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Kinda sucks because now you really have no control over who gets your data. No need to scrape pages or embed trackers when the fediverse just broadcasts your activity to anyone.

Even if your instance defederates from threads, doesn’t mean they defederated from yours, so anything you do is fair game for Meta’s data collection. That’s at least as I understand it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    Yes, but I doubt Meta scrapes Reddit or Lemmy, for instance. With this change we’ll just be delivering it to them on a platter. And, knowing Meta, they’ll find ways to use the data.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    If it's visible, you're best assuming that Meta, Google, Amazon, the CIA, everyone, has a copy of it and are linking it all together behind the scenes.

    At least this way they don't get your IP address or linked advertising cookies. Here you're just a username and whatever you post. Unless you browse and post directly on threads that is. Those guys get all their milkshake drunk.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    If they don't scrape Reddit, it's because scraping Reddit costs money. Because they closed down their free-of-charge APIs, remember? Which they did because people were scraping their data for free.

    Scraping Lemmy is free, and most probably will always remain that way.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Then why are you posting publicly on the internet? Anything you post here is fair game.

    Also, Meta's data collection is from their own clients so they can target ads to you. This information is basically useless as you aren't on their platform so they cannot take sensitive data and cannot target ads at you

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