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#Meta and #Yandex are de-anonymizing #Android users’ #web browsing #identifiers
#Tracking code that Meta and #Russia - based Yandex embed into millions of websites is de-anonymizing visitors by abusing legitimate #Internet protocols, causing #Chrome and other browsers to surreptitiously send unique identifiers to native apps installed on a device, researchers have discovered. #Google says it's investigating the abuse, which allows Meta and Yandex to convert ephemeral web identifiers into persistent #mobile #app user identities.
#anonymity #surveillance #www #privacy #browser #fail #warning #danger #history #software #fail #problem #economy #news #identify #usa #politics #bigbrother
Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers
Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
⚠️ IMPORTANT FEDIPACT ANNOUNCEMENT!!!⚠️
THREADS HAS CHANGED DOMAINS TO THREADS.COM!!!!!
in a deleted article techcrunch confirmed threads would be moving from threads.net to threads.com
zero clue why it was deleted because threads.net already redirects to threads.com as of right now
sooooo yeah!!! new domain to block. check out https://fedipact.online/why if you're wondering why
#fediblock #FediPact #meta #threads
FediPact is now, unambiguously, an antifascist struggle.
To be sure, it's not the most most important front; not when we see, for example, the bureaucratic precursors to literal trans genocide. But it's not unimportant either.
There's been a lot of talk around here about the fediverse being a holdout and refuge in an age of fascist capture of capitalist social media. That can and should be true - but is actually not, so long as the Zuckerberg entity continues to be provided the power to manipulate the future of ActivityPub.
Don't assume that the current status quo will hold or that the threat is waning. Don't assume that Meta will not advance its fediverse integration beyond the current, bizarrely stunted joke of a bridge. Don't forget that they always unilaterally force the next step on us as a sudden surprise with no advance warning.
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#DefederateMeta #FediPact #Meta #Zuckerberg #Threads #Facebook #Instagram #SWICG #SocialWebFoundation
Where our social media - and press - seem to be heading, much faster than we could all imagine ...
#SocialMedia #Press #Facebook #Meta
Meta and friends – like Mastodon and Vivaldi – form Social Web Foundation.
May I be the first to say:
Fuck the Social Web Foundation.
https://socialwebfoundation.org
I am so fucking sick of this bullshit happening over and over again. I’d say they’re useful idiots but, let’s face it, Mastodon aren’t idiots. Vivaldi aren’t idiots. They’re smart folks. They know full well what Meta is. They clearly just don’t give a shit.
#SocialWebFoundation #Meta #BigTech #surveillance #capitalism #fediverse
"WhatsApp będzie wymagał podpisania osobnej umowy z każdym dostawcą Matrixa, który chce korzystać z interoperacyjności z WhatsAppem."
#KE powinna za takie praktyki dojechać #meta ****** nabijanym gwoździami.
Właściwie wg tej logiki to takie usługi jak gmail też powinny wymagać od każdego właściciela serwera pocztowego podpisania stosownej umowy, czyż nie ?
BTW każdy posiadacz serwera matrix, który taką umowę podpisze będzie (dla mnie) pożytecznym idiotą meta.
meta's public policy director for threads.net and other platforms is one of the authors of project 2025
#FediPact #meta #threads #project2025
Ahh, a former "fellow for cybersecurity, intelligence, and emerging technologies at The Heritage Foundation" (which is behind "Project 2025" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025) is now working at Meta.
- https://www.heritage.org/staff/dustin-carmack
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustin-carmack-ab159a27
- https://defeatproject2025.org/author-bios/dustin-carmack/
via https://438punk.house/@xyhhx/112870547446779902
Dustin Carmack - Defeat Project 2025!
According to Carmack's bio in the Mandate for Leadership, “he served in the Intelligence Community as Chief of Staff to the Director of National Intelligence.Defeat Project 2025 (Defeat Project 2025!)
Don't be too hasty! That would be unfair. Let's see how well it integrates first. ☝️😌
#activitypub #threads #meta 🤢 #fediverse
"Razem przeciw dezinformacji" - razem z #meta i #google oczywiście. Bo to partnerzy główni imprezy.
Dwa podmioty najbardziej na świecie oddane zwalczaniu dezinformacji. Prawda ?
Dear @Gargron,
A fediverse server called Threads is violating mastodon.social’s second server rule:
“2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia…
Transphobic behavior such as intentional misgendering and deadnaming is strictly prohibited.”
Can you please defederate from this server to protect the trans people on mastodon.social?
Thank you.
PS. It’s run by these guys: https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/
#mastodonSocial #fediblock #threads #meta #mastodon #transphobia
Report – Unsafe: Meta Fails to Moderate Extreme Anti-trans Hate Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | GLAAD
GLAAD’s Social Media Safety Program reported the following anti-trans hate content across Instagram, Facebook, and Threads; Meta deemed all of it non-violative or did not take action on it.GLAAD
"Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal"
Das ist vorsätzliches Umgehen von Sicherheitsmaßnahmen und eine illegale Überwachung/Spionage. Wer Meta/Facebook noch in irgendeiner Weise vertraut, der sollte sich gut überlegen, was Vertrauen für ihn bedeutet.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/
Mastodon.social rolling out the red carpet for Threads is like an independent shop inviting a supermarket to set up next door.
But what’s done is done. And I’ve wasted enough words on this whole sorry affair over the last year.
So this is the last you’ll hear about it from me. When, eventually, you’re writing your “what went wrong?” articles, feel free to look up what I’d written on the issue back when.
#threads #mastodon #mastodonSocial #zuckerberg #facebook #meta #fediverse
How to block Threads on Mastodon -- with screenshots! (UPDATED AGAIN)
https://privacy.thenexus.today/how-to-block-threads-on-mastodon/
Now with two options and a discussion of privacy tradeoffs!
Should the Fediverse welcome its new surveillance-capitalism overlords? Opinions differ! If you're one of the fediverse influencers who sees Threads arrival it as "historic" and "a glimpse of the future" ... well, you might want to skip this post.
But if you're one of the many many people on the fediverse who doesn't want to deal with Threads, read on!
I created an account on the Fediverse
*because* it is not Facebook,
*because* it is different,
*because* it is better,
*because* it doesn’t have ads,
*because* it is more respectful of its users,
*because* it doesn’t have an algorithm deciding what I see,
and *because* is has much better ethics and moderation.
I really hope it stays that way 
Left: my Pixelfed, Right: my Instagram
Pixelfed filters
Staging by dansup · Pull Request #4037 · pixelfed/pixelfed
Photo Sharing. For Everyone. Contribute to pixelfed/pixelfed development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
In the text, not a word about the fact that the rules , on which #meta offers cooperation (e.g., the obligation of confidentiality of all shared technical information) exclude from potential cooperation any #decentralized communicator based on #foss. The #EuropeanCommission should kick them in the ass for this.
"... the website loads in a special browser built into the app, rather than your phone’s default browser. In 2022, privacy researcher Felix Krause found that Meta injects special “keylogging” JavaScript onto the website you’re visiting that allows the company to monitor everything you type and tap on, including passwords. Other apps including TikTok do the same thing."
What the hell?? This is so creepy.
#Meta #JavaScript #Privacy #web #SocialMedia #News #Threads
https://gizmodo.com/meet-link-history-facebook-s-new-way-to-track-the-we-1851134018
Meet ‘Link History,’ Facebook’s New Way to Track the Websites You Visit
Facebook introduces a confusing new setting as the walls close in on Zuckerberg’s data machine.Thomas Germain (Gizmodo)
this is why many people who're so adamantly against federating with threads are so goddamn ANGRY
we're so fucking tired tired of having our safe spaces -- our refuges against queerphobia -- ripped away from us
queer people, outcasts, weirdos, etc. -- we built this fucking this network. we laid the groundwork for its very existence and now you're trying to tell us we don't matter, that we should just give it all up in the face of some evil megacorp. well fuck that
we're not going down without a fight
Threads needs to be blocked at server level.
Leaving it up to individual choice puts people in physical danger. Here's how:
1. Meta/Facebook/Threads allows accounts that incite hatred against vulnerable groups
2. Some follow these hateful accounts and believe their lies
3. Innocent people are physically attacked in real life
This actually happens:
#Meta won't stop it:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17587080/mark-zuckerberg-holocaust-denial-kara-swisher-interview
Please block #Threads.
Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection In 2016 Memo — And Warned That Facebook Could Get People Killed
Facebook Vice President Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said that “questionable contact importing practices,” “subtle language that helps people stay searchable,” and other growth techniques are justified by the company’s connecting of people.Ryan Mac (BuzzFeed)
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Posted today: Video overview of massive moderation failure across all #Meta networks filled with criminal activity and abuse.
Yet somehow countless #MastoAdmin folks still think we need to "give them the benefit of the doubt" and "wait and see".
We have seen more than enough abuse to exclude them. For nearly two decades.
📺 Watch "Facebook is a Cesspool of Fraud, Fake Accounts, Scams and Worse":
Federating with a surveillance capitalist doesn’t make you a surveillance capitalist, it just means that surveillance capitalism isn’t a deal breaker for you.
#mastodon #meta #facebook #instagram #threads #mastodon #fediverse #adtech #peopleFarming #surveillanceCapitalism
nobody i've seen trying to criticize fedipact in depth seems to actually like understand the point of it lmao
they think it's all about data scraping or opposition to meta on principle or just being gatekeepy or something
some of what they bring up are valid concerns, but far from my main one. my biggest concern here is entirely practical: allowing threads onto fedi will bring about a torrent of hate
the reason i started it was always "protecting queer people and other marginalized groups on here from harassment"
further reading: https://fedipact.online/why
like... why should we want anything to do with an instance that willingly allows GaysAgainstGroomers and LibsOfTikTok to exist on their platform? these are the kinds of hate speech accounts that get queer people killed every single goddamn day
that's basically like federating with fucking gab but with a few extra steps
i think the most annoying thing about this whole discourse is that people refuse to judge threads by the standard of any other fedi instance
like if a mastodon instance got set up and federated right now and it allowed the shit threads allowed it'd be widely defederated IMMEDIATELY
there are accounts literally CALLING FOR THE DEATH OF QUEER PEOPLE on there right fucking now
the only reason people are even willing to give them a chance is because it's a big corpo, but that should only be reason to give them less of one lmao. especially considering meta's history in particular
don't let them lower the bar for moderation standards here
So annihilation.social, which seems to be an instance with known issues, is running a bot to identify and post about instances that are blocking #threads.
Other users are then using those posts to send messages to the instance admins asking them to justify their decision (to harass admins of instances that block #Meta, basically).
An example: https://attractive.space/@expert/111582436230554231
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The recent excitement surrounding Thread's arrival on the Fediverse is concerning. To understand why this is not a good idea, consider their economic interest in harvesting data, their poor moderation, and their manipulations. Nothing good can come from their federation. Don't roll out the red carpet for them.
#Threads #Mastodon #Krita #MastoArt #Meta
#meta zaczęła wyświetlać polskim użytkownikom popup, który wymusza wybór pomiędzy
- płatnym kontem bez reklam (ale ⚠️ dane osobiste będą w tym wariancie nadal używane do profilowania w innych celach np wyświetlanych treści, uczenia maszynowego itp.)
- "darmowym" kontem ze spersonalizowaną reklamą, która to opcja ⚠️ została uznana za niedozwoloną przez Europejską Radę Ochrony Danych: https://edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2023/edpb-urgent-binding-decision-processing-personal-data-behavioural-advertising-meta_en
Wygląda na to, że nie ma prostej możliwości usunięcia konta bez dokonania jakiejś decyzji w tym popupie.
#prywatność #rodo #gdpr