“You’re not affected if (and only if)

• You access Facebook and Instagram via the web, without having the apps installed on your phone
• You browse on desktop computers or use iOS (iPhones)
• You always used the Brave browser or the DuckDuckGo search engine on mobile”

"You’re not affected if (and only if)

You access Facebook and Instagram via the web, without having the apps installed on your phone

You browse on desktop computers or use iOS (iPhones)

You always used the Brave browser or the DuckDuckGo search engine on mobile

"

This is not what "if (and only if)" means.

this is so creepy!

it's like those "i know what you did" crypto scan emails but for real

lately id noticed that ive been getting ads for shit on Instagram for stuff ive been internet searching on my tablet. been wondering why this is, since i use cookie blocking browser extensions.

now i know why — my tablet is the only place i have the Instagram app.

not making that mistake again

and you just know they were telling their investors “oh yeah youre getting good results from it our ads because our AI is SOOO GOOOOD”

nope. just literal wiretapping

the moment Facebook begun raking in billions from advertisers for targeted surveillance of their idiot, consumerist "product", we entered the Twilight Zone.

Or maybe that happened when corrupt politicians the world over saw what happened and said: "hey there, Zuck, nice biznis you came up with, too bad if we were to regulate it".

Whatever the precise moment we got trapped, we will not exit the Twilight Zone unless Meta goes bankrupt. It is so simple and stark.

#surveillancecapitalism

@Gargron@mastodon.socia

I think it was brazil who blocked Twitter/X as a punishment and to force them to toe the line, fines won't stop META at all, but what would stop them is to block them fully until they get their act together and comply with our laws end of story. It did seem to work.

Time for TOUGH action rater then pussyfooting around.

Oh and raise awareness of what Meta are doing in the context of various laws and suggest people make their own minds up if they should stay on META products.

a more technical explanation is available there: localmess.github.io/

With more Facebook shenanigans when the researchers disclosed the information.

Yandex applications are also using the same trick.

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@Gargron thank you for sharing this article.

So to sum this up, you won’t be affected by these ‘data breaches’ if:
1. You access FB and IG via the web, and not have the apps installed on your phone [this article is concerned with Android users].
2. You’re browsing on a computer, or using an iPhone/browsing with iOS (iPhone).
3. You’re using ‘Brave browser’ [which was unaffected in the test overview], or the ‘DuckDuckGo’ browser [which was minimally affected], on your phone. [see 2-3]

It would be a bonus if Android now dropped Zuckerberg- but of course they've been getting paid for hosting Fb & Insta too, like Apple.

FB were always fearful of & vulnerable to Android & Apple wims.

Fines won't cut it. What’s needed is a ban on their business operations in the EU.

Meta did this knowingly — fully aware of the law, the fines, and the technical barriers Android puts in place. They pushed through anyway, showing the kind of calculated disregard for rules that’s hard to see as anything but criminal.

They likely weighed the fines against the profits and went ahead. And they’ll do it again, just in a slightly different way.

This is not a company that learns or changes. They don’t respect the law, they don’t care about market rules — they care about control and profit, and they’ll keep pushing until they’re stopped.

So let's stop them.

@EUCommission please just ban #Meta from the EU.

@Gargron

"You're not affected if you always used the DuckDuckGo search engine on mobile"

How would using DuckDuckGo have prevented this? Seems like the issue is happening on any site you end up on, regardless of your search engine of choice.

I think the term we are looking for is "Malware".

The software was explicitly designed to circumvent security mechanisms of the OS in order to implement undesired extra functionality.

of course it does.
I used to not have any fb app installed on my phone, and rarely used it on browser.
Once I did installed messenger, it collected everything it could, and almost instantly recommended bunch of fb profiles of mine discord friends it didn't knew about before.

fuck meta

This is why I never have a social media app on my phone and sim swapping is why I never have a financial app on my phone.

BTW, Google could be open to an even larger lawsuit.
wired.com/story/a-researcher-f…

A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account

Phone numbers are a gold mine for SIM swappers. A researcher found how to get this precious piece of information through a clever brute-force attack.

^{Joseph Cox (WIRED)}

so where is all this cash going? To the users who have been spyed. Right?

Is just me or this is actually bribing authorities?

Guess what. I can't uninstall it on my phone. I can only quote disable it.

sensorstechforum.com/unable-un…

And I never installed it so I didn't even know it was there.

This only means that others are also doing it. So everyone should be very careful with what apps they install.

Sure, I'd say this is a android only exploit for now. I'd be curious if this exploit can be done on GrapheneOS, instead of Google Android.

But if I was running iOS I wouldn't gloat too much. Apple has been sharing still unencrypted push notifications to governments for quite a while.

Pick your poison.

Thanks for the push. I got my final family member off Messenger weeks ago, and I needed a push to delete the accounts.
Facebook account deleted
Messenger account deleted
Bonus action, Instagram account deleted.

😇

and if you use #threads_meta_corruption ?

It is same as insta ?!?

Who is still federating with corrupted threads ?

If WhatsApp is also owned by meta, is it possibke they are spying on so called private messages on whatsAp too, can they be trusted Not to do this (based on their record NO) it could be interesting as they advertise that can't see messages.

I also hope they get a class action lawsuit along side the fine.