Meta’s business model has always been surveillance dressed up as connection. Now Muse reportedly wants to build hourly dossiers on people who never even signed up. Friends, family, bystanders: everyone becomes data because one Meta user mentioned them.

Yes. I hate that my wife uses it, and they probably have years of data on me. Without consent. 🥺

sigh how do I opt out of all this?

Class action lawsuit?? How else?

Block all of Meta’s domains and ASNs on your network and cut off contact with anyone that uses it.

Five years ago I would have cared. These days I simply assume and accept that if I go online I abandon all hopes of privacy. It’s a trade-off - they know that I like blonde roast coffee…I get to my preferred products faster. My days of tinfoil-hats are over but to each his own of course.

As much as I hate to say it, I agree with ya. My only hope is that I’m boring enough that nobody bothers to bundle up and purchase all my data

Lol, I’m sort of doing the same thing. My browsing history must be some the most boring ever. They want it they can have it.

It doesn’t matter how boring you are. You are still a voter and a consumer to be squeezed maximally for profit and to be diverted from revolting and chopping billionaires heads off, just like every other person on earth

And, as I said, I’ve accepted that I abandon hopes of privacy when I’m online these days. And your ‘idea’ about diversion is far from internet-only it runs through education, off-line media, literature, art and social constructs.

Also, I have a friend that is a couple of hundred millions away from being able to call himself a billionaire but when/if he gets to that I’m fairly sure I’d very much prefer his head to remain on his shoulders.

Hey, why is Meta using this uncanny valley grimace on xanex as a mascot anyway? I mean, what’s the plan there… He’s creepy.

Probably just something the Zuck likes. That would explain why humans find it creepy.

he finds organic humanoids distasteful.

you mean the doll-eyes android in control of meta.

This is also a major problem with social networks, gmail and so on - users think these authorize them to give away private data of you- like phone numbers, mail adresses, text message content, images - of you.

Now things that have been told in confidence only for their ears are added to that list.

Not mine, I ditched that shit years ago when I got a three day ban for telling a dude he was a little bitch after he bragged about beefing his wife.

He never even got so much as a warning.

Sounds like a stalker which is honestly pretty insane.

Is it really spying if people are giving out all their info freely? I guess the agent with its cutesy demeanor is kind of pressuring people to do that, which is obviously not ok.

But a different side of this is people just not giving a shit about any of this. And not for the first time. Facebook wouldn’t try this if they didn’t know most people would go for it. Not saying that to justify their actions, but we desperately need people to realise what the outcome of all this is.

You have to or it will show you its little butthole.

Meta is not your friend. Meta is a stalker which would knock you on your head and sell your corneas if it had the ability to do so and there were a nickel to be made from it.

Fuck me, that thing even kinda looks like Bonzi Buddy.

You know, the thing from 25 years ago that spied on you and you only installed if you were an idiot (I installed it twice).