Deathsauce@kbin.socialtoFediverse@kbin.social•So, I guess Threads is officially spyware... Not at all shocked, but, Jesus that's a lot of data they're wanting.
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1 year agoTake me back in time to the 2000s when the most scandalous spyware was a purple gorilla virtual assistant telling awful jokes with a TTS voice.
I personally don’t see the “Eureka!” moment that big tech apparently does in moving EVERYTHING to the cloud when they struggle to design safe and reliable services as is. The whole cloud stuff just kind of says “sure it will be a privacy nightmare rife for exploitation from bad actors, but THINK of the money we could earn from it in the long run!”