🤯 Instagram is testing new iOS push notifications that include a profile photo. Each time the notification is shown on your screen, it triggers a GET request to fetch that image, letting Meta track every on-screen impression.
The app still misuses push notifications to send detailed device analytics about the device (uptime, battery, volume, locale, timezone, memory, CPU, etc.)
I’m pretty close to leaving social media. I’ll make a blog for anyone who can’t live without my hot takes.
I did it years ago. Only social media I use is this. I even cut off contact with my Trump voting family. I am alone in the world with just my kids, wife, and Lemmy.
You can try frendica
I’m just about to. I’ve been going through my password manager and deleting my accounts held by companies whose TOS I disagree with. My last biggest ones are Google, Meta and Microsoft. That’ll take a little prep.
Facebook has been using ways to circumvent the users privacy permissions for mass surveillance for over a decade now. This is no surprise.
They call it “innovation”. I call it hacking and privacy violation.
Another situation where hacking is bad. Not all hacking is bad. But this is an example where it is.
Like I needed any more reasons to not use it.
