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Why just blocking Meta's Threads won't be enough to protect your privacy once they join the fediverse
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this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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You control how anonymous you are. If you post non personal stuff under a pseudonym you are anonymous. Even to meta.
Not accurate. Due to how widespread facebook trackers are, it can identify you from the behaviour of others. People in your social circle linking to your content. People in your subnet using facebook services. People who hgave your phone numbers linking to your content on whatsapp etc. It's scary how easy it is for a massive corpo to remove anonymity from anyone if they want to.
Thank God I don't have a social circle
Not really, the way you write, leaves a fingerprint itself, so with a little bit of AI it's possible to link personal/identifiable profiles with pseudonymous/anonymous ones.
I doubt it. But even if your only way of circumventing it is not to use social media. Because social media is not private. That is the point.
It has been demonstrated time and time again that social graph fingerprinting is not only widespread but extremely effective.
This article literally demonstrates a way of circumventing it. Blocking all instances that federate with threads.
Additional tracking options can further improve your privacy and difficulty to be fingerprinted in general, things like librewolf, for example.
That's not the question here.
The 2 problems here are
that F*book scrapes this user's personal data from other random places (very illegal)
and that they change the FB profile without asking the user specifically (should be illegal, but maybe they find an excuse in their terms & conditions)