It surprises me how poor peopleās technology literacy is, when they see an app with a completely skewed logo and think, āItās probably the real deal.ā
There really needs to be some form of education in this areaā¦
Nevertheless, it would be great if people had better tools to assess whether the ātradesā they make with tech giants are as innocent as they think. This requires, for example, a better understanding of the data they are giving away. I think the list of permissions shown on the app store for the legitimate app can be quite abstract for many people. Makes it too too easy to overlook the potential consequences and quickly click download - or accept, like many do with cookies.
Iām not talking about the public stuff, because thatās not where the money is for Meta. Here is the stuff the Thread app collects https://i.imgur.com/pAEPSGx.jpg
Now juxtapose that with what the Lemmy app collects.
Sorry misunderstood your comment, yeah Threads/Meta is god awful for collecting data wouldnāt want to touch them personally
There definitely is money in it for Meta though, just yesterday there was quite a popular post showing the types of data that is available to both users and instance owners. If one wanted to they could use things such as your upvotes and down votes to build a sort of profile about you, your political affiliations, interests etc
Meta isnāt just a problem, ad companies can easily set up an instance to start collecting data from other servers
Redditās newest users use it like Tiktok, thus pushing short videos to the front page all the time. It will become a Tiktok clone within the next six months. Mark my words.
IMO this already happened. Iāve been seeing too many short videos content on reddit lately. Thatās why Iāve been slowly abandoning reddit. Eventually API changes made me switch to lemmy which is turning out fine right now.
OP has a view setting that magnifies ads. In my view setting (as close to third party apps as it gets), the ads take up much less space and there is no trending section. OP is choosing a bad layout to exaggerate their point.
Iām not entirely sure but I only changed settings when things bothered me and I never saw this sort of ad. Iām not sure if I even browsed popular before I changed some settings so Iām not an objective judge. My point is, users are not trapped with this sort of ad environment. You use classic view instead of card view and the ads get a little differently annoying. Not huge screen space gobblers but sneaky post-lookalike pests.
I love these air shows! I recently caught one in Cocoa Beach, Florida and it was so cool watching all the planes fly over the ocean. It was a great event
Meanwhile, a lot of other apps have ānot affiliated with Instagramā as a disclaimer as their first line of the description. I was wondering if Apple requires it or even automated it somehow. Screenshot
The Master System version included a hidden level and boss that I don't believe were on any other ports. I could be completely wrong, as I'm going off memory from a long time ago.
That hidden level was quite difficult for me then. Probably still is.
It looks like thereās also a version 4 thatās still FOSS that I assume would be targeted to new platforms. But I only know enough French to get the gist of their site, I donāt know the more technical words to figure out whatās changed.
I tried running the tgz a few months ago. It needed a shitload of deprecated python dependancies, Iām not well versed in python so after the 10th pip install I gave up.
Version 4 is unfortunately closed source and paid.
I had a quick look at the PKGSRC on AUR. It uses QtWebKit which is the biggest stumbling block, given that most or perhaps even all distributions killed that for security reasons. I recently found out that an āAI and automationā company forked and revived QtWebKit, so there is a tiny chance distros will package it again but donāt hold your breath. There was a promising fork once and Iād guess there will be an attitude by packagers that theyāve fallen for a fork before and that never got off the ground.
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