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These are the privacy permissions that you grant for Meta's new twitter competitor (yiffit.net)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 57 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I'm asking myself how people can accept these conditions. There is a huge work of education on privacy to be done.

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  • [+] 25 points 3 years ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)
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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Whilst that would be fantastic. I highly doubt google or apple are even going to entertain the idea, especially when you want to download one of their apps.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    one of their apps

    I know Apple Bad (TM), but they’re probably the most privacy-focused big company in existence. With their current model/values/whatever, they would never collect enough data to need to slap that warning on any of their apps.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Huh. Honestly, fair enough. To be honest., I don't usually look into any companies at that much of a deeper lever. So I just assumed they'd be the same.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I’m actually shocked that any company values privacy at this point. It’s definitely reflected in the price, since you’re not subsidizing your cost with your data for ads, but it’s still refreshing to me. I hope they stay that way. I’m a hardcore PC user, but I like having my phone stuff private/locked down so I’ve been on iPhone for a long time.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Mee too at this point. I'm not a huge fan of apple devices as I like my stuff being open. It's just a shame I've gotta use android. I know I can root my phone but I can't be arsed dealing with it all

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I had fun on my G1 and G2, installing CFW. The G2 was a fucking pain because it had some anti-CFW bullshit that would reflash to stock unless you disabled that. Early Android phones went to shit so quickly and became soooo sloooooow though, so ya kinda HAD to use CFW.

    As a lifelong PC person, I couldn’t love iOS more. It’s stupid efficient and fully featured (now, it definitely had issues and limitations when it was new.) At this point, I’m always confused when folks say they need Android for customization or whatever. There’s precious little that stock Android does that stock iOS can’t do now.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Thata fair, I had only ever rooted my one plus 3/6, and a Sony or two, but it just wasn't as effective for me so I decided to stick stock with my current phone.

    I don't really hate apple. There's quite a few things I don't agree with it, but that's the same with every corporation, really. And I entirelynsee why people would want their products.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Also fair! I LOOOOOOVED my Android phones, but i I’ll didn’t have a choice but to switch when I de-Googled my household and life. I certainly wasn’t going to switch to a Windows phone!

    I did play with my partner’s iPhone when I had my G2, and typing on the on-screen keyboard was the first time I was swayed from “I’ll never NOT have a physical keyboard on my phone.” Android phones now have awesome on-screen keyboards, but back when the original Evo was top dog… they were absolute rubbish.

    I still miss my slide out keyboards, though.

    Quick edit: really strange to have like… normal, reasonable conversations like this. If I was back on Reddit, we’d be shitting on each other endlessly.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    To be honest. I'd be down to de-google. My only issue is, I use youtube way top much. I use it as background. I've heard of piped, so I want to check that out, but the last time I looked at it, I got confused on hpw to login. But I'm sure I'll find it somewhere. Also, use revanced on my phone and smart tube on my TV, so that's at least something.

    I think I'm too young to deeply remember full screen flip out keyboards. I remember blackberry though, I think they had it. But I never had one. I think my first "smart" phone was actually and Alcatel. Got out through the washing machine and it died. Which is funny, because I've dropped my now phone in the hot bath about 3 times, and it's only ever asked me to dry the holes.

    I wonder if anyone would ever come out with a slide out proper smart phone, that's really good nowadays. Could be quite a fun novelty phone if yiu didn't use them much. Loved my flip ips though, they were weirdly fun. Also weirdly resilient.

    It's really nice honestly. I don't think I've seen a comment section that looks really toxic. It's really nice, honestly.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I think what people need are clear examples, concisely expressed, of the explicit harm experienced by forgoing a certain quanta of privacy, since the benefits are apparent (eg gain access to a certain service/community/etc).

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    You'd think the dystopia of China and what they did to Hong Kong would be enough. We hear scary stories about China that you think people would want not want that here. Or episodes of Black Mirror.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    None of that can be explained by allowing private companies to collect digital data.

    What you've posted is a great example of scaremongering.

    Again, if you want to advocate for privacy, you need to make a direct and explicit connection. Not this tinfoil hat, arm waving general conspiracy thinking. It's not compelling

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