In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like “headphone status” and “screen density.”

  • prowert@lemmy.zipEnglish
    35·
    1 year ago

    Why did you download threads in the first place? Just scanned the app in exodus and the list of trackers is worse than all meta apps combined

    • ProfezzorDarke@feddit.deEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Perhaps to inform us all? Recon style self infection and inflitration of the brainwashed megacorp corps.

    • Lee Duna@lemmy.nzEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Meta is still a privacy threat for fediverse users, if there are fediverse instances that remain federated with Meta.

      Ross Schulman, senior fellow for decentralization at digital rights nonprofit the Electronic Frontier Foundation, notes that if Threads emerges as a massive player in the fediverse, there could be concerns about what he calls “social graph slurping." Meta will know who all of its users interact with and follow within Threads, and it will also be able to see who its users follow in the broader fediverse. And if Threads builds up anywhere near the reach of other Meta platforms, just this little slice of life would give the company a fairly expansive view of interactions beyond its borders.

      https://www.wired.com/story/meta-threads-privacy-decentralization/