Takis are for people who hate teeth.

Okay, you fix the software, then.

True, but no one is going to pay for content with production values barely above tiktok videos - which is what most of YouTube’s most famous content is.

I don’t think of it as paying for the content, as much as just paying for an ad-free experience that doesn’t require maintenance on my end and still helps pay creators. I watch YouTube a lot, and on several devices that aren’t easy to adblock on, so I just pay for a family plan and none of my family has to see ads on any of their devices, either. I don’t think YouTube is really doing exclusive content anymore, so that’s not really a huge reason to subscribe.

YTP is one of the few “quality of life” subscriptions that I think is genuinely worth it, IMO.

Presumably they mean it allows the DNS provider to see your internet traffic, but I don’t believe that’s wholly accurate. I believe at most they’d be able to log timestamps of what domains you visited.

I think whatever you’re doing is a little overkill for Lemmy. Normal users don’t have these issues.

I feel like Target has to be giving T-Mobile a run for their money in this field. It seems like I’m reading about a new Target data breach at least every other year.

I’m pretty sure they’re required to disclose that, and since they’re already publicly admitting to some breaches, I doubt they’d be trying to hide parts of it while they’re already likely being looked into.

It sounds like the data that was gathered is the sort of data that a customer support rep should have access to. They typically can only see pertinent details like what is necessary to verify a customer’s identity and their device details, which lines up with what was mentioned in the disclosure. I imagine some CSR probably got their work account phished or something.

Passwords are probably just fine, from the looks of things.

Meanwhile, your source contradicts your argument entirely.

Following an investigation by Bloomberg, the company admitted that it had been employing third-party contractors to transcribe the audio messages that users exchanged on its Messenger app.

So not your IRL conversations.

There is no indication that Facebook has used the information it collected to sell ads.

So not for ads.

It says the opposite of the things you claimed.

Google has implemented their own E2EE on top of RCS (based on Signal’s messaging for one to one conversations, based on MLS for group chats), but they haven’t published any specifications for that.

Ahh, this must be what I was thinking of, then. Thanks for clarifying!

Doesn’t RCS support E2EE if properly implemented? I seem to recall reading that the spec for RCS supports this, but it’s just that carriers won’t enable it.

I just want to make it clear that we don’t like Nazis either—we wish no-one held those views.

“But we’ll gladly host those views on our platform, run ads alongside them, and profit from them.”

Good. I can’t wait to stop hearing about this app and their stupid feud with Apple.

You don’t need iMessage. Your iFriends need RCS. Beeper is not the solution.

Well I know which half I’m in.

Aside from situations involving false positive detections of wake words, there aren’t other situations in which these devices are “listening”. Watchdog groups have been eyeing these devices for years now, and there haven’t been any confirmed cases of these things spying on their owners.

If that’s how you want to run your instance, that’s your right to do. But for community-based instances, the users should have some say in the matter.

Yes, I can move to another instance if mine decides to defederate, but that’s a lot of hassle that I’d have to go through because of a decision somebody else made for me, all because they can’t or won’t moderate themselves.

“Copying isn’t stealing.”

what happens to existing culture on fediverse

Likely nothing. If Threads users are problematic and Meta refuses to moderate them appropriately, then instances can defederate later.

Doing it preemptively or forming a pact is just absurd, though. It’s treating the users of Threads as a threat, instead of Meta (who can and will still be able to harvest anything they want from the Fediverse, because that’s how ActivityPub works), and that’s not fair to them who didn’t ask to be thrown into our community in the first place.

I’m snarky because I’m annoyed at seeing the constant FUD being lauded around here. Sorry if that snark comes off as hostile.

Yes, Meta is a shit corp who doesn’t deserve any free pass. However, ActivityPub wasn’t built with exclusion in mind. Nor does the protocol allow Meta access to anything that you aren’t already giving up freely to thousands upon thousands of other servers (many of whom cannot or will not respect your rights to data privacy) whenever you use any Fediverse platform.

People who are scared of Meta joining the Fediverse simply do not understand how the Fediverse works, or misunderstand the design philosophy of ActivityPub.

It wasn’t a roll-call.