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Social networks are getting stingy with their data, leaving third-party developers in the lurch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] SteefLem@lemmy.world 178 points 10 months ago (3 children)

“Their data” HA.

[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago

Hey! It took years of hard work to develop the good will necessary to get into a position to take advantage of their data!

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Mark Zuckerberg: "Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard just @ me. I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS."

"What? How'd you manage that one?" a friend asked.

"People just submitted it," "I don't know why. They 'trust' me. Dumb fucks."

edit: copy/paste cleanup

[–] SteefLem@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Name address and so on i, well, understand if you buy something online to fill that in. But sns and id??? Thats all kinds of stupid. Why would you give thata willingly to fb? Its not a government entity or even a bank.

[–] EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It could be that some of that data was scraped from FB messenger.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

That quote comes the time facebook was not open to the public yet. just fellow students of his.

[–] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, when we sign up to their EULAs we "willingly" give everything up... So technically it ends up being legally theirs 🥺

[–] Diotima@kbin.social 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not quite, but pretty close. You still hold copyrights in anything protected by copyright for example. They just have a perpetual license to use your work. We really ought to be working on laws to protect privacy and limit corp content piracy without explicitly clear opt-ins.

[–] SteefLem@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe we should charge them for emails they send us. Want me to sign up for a news letter, that will be 20€ per email. Or something.

[–] Diotima@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Back in the paper spam days, some folk would stuff the "postage paid" envelopes with junk and mail them back to troll the companies. Setting up a junk address with an autoresponder would be pleasing, but probably would get tagged illegal.

[–] SteefLem@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Shame, its legal when big corp does it but illegal when I do it. This always seems weird to me.