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These are the privacy permissions that you grant for Meta's new twitter competitor (yiffit.net)
submitted 1 year ago by Wander@yiffit.net to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing. As is the case with most social media companies, you are the product. And they do that by spying on you. Same with many other "free" services like, YouTube, email, maps, etc.

[โ€“] Under_enrage@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

well that's make my cybersecurity lesson about spyware irrelevant in this environment, because every Free services are leeches for our information. but the justification for including spyware is where the data is going, and yet again very irrelevant.