• phoneymouse@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Yes, but I doubt Meta scrapes Reddit or Lemmy, for instance. With this change we’ll just be delivering it to them on a platter. And, knowing Meta, they’ll find ways to use the data.

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        11 months ago

        Even if Meta doesn’t do it themselves there are likely hundreds of companies that do, and Meta can pay them for the data they want.

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        If it’s visible, you’re best assuming that Meta, Google, Amazon, the CIA, everyone, has a copy of it and are linking it all together behind the scenes.

        At least this way they don’t get your IP address or linked advertising cookies. Here you’re just a username and whatever you post. Unless you browse and post directly on threads that is. Those guys get all their milkshake drunk.

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        If it’s on the darkweb or deepweb then MAYBE they are not, but the reason the rest of the web is not considered part of those groups is because Google/Meta/Microsoft/etc scrape it, categorize it, and process it.