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These are the privacy permissions that you grant for Meta's new twitter competitor (yiffit.net)
submitted 1 year ago by Wander@yiffit.net to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Worse, they gatekeep your data and only sell your attention to advertisers. That way no one has all the data but them.

[โ€“] AllGoesUpMustGoDown@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, the data is used to create profiles of you to serve more relevant ads, so that advertisers pay them more. Thats more accurate once I think about it a little.