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All of these types of "hey, give us your password to this other system" are just training users to get phished. IMO the worst offender in this is Plaid, which has created a service where millions of people are giving their banking credentials so some random startup can mine your transaction data. And people think FB has privacy implications...
All of these types of "hey, give us your password to this other system" are just training users to get phished. IMO the worst offender in this is Plaid, which has created a service where millions of people are giving their banking credentials so some random startup can mine your transaction data. And people think FB has privacy implications...
All of these types of "hey, give us your password to this other system" are just training users to get phished. IMO the worst offender in this is Plaid, which has created a service where millions of people are giving their banking credentials so some random startup can mine your transaction data. And people think FB has privacy implications...
That's exactly how mint.com works, owned by Intuit/QuickBooks.
In the old days didn't lots of people give their email passwords to Facebook, so that it can scan their contact and invite everyone to Facebook?
Not sure about them previously asking for email passwords, but there are many email APIs that can give permissions access to your contacts [0]. I don't doubt that in the older days of Facebook they were probably achieving this using some shadier methods. But worse than this, just by installing the Facebook App it liberally takes contact details from your device [1]. I personally use mbasic.facebook.com as it can run…
I dont know why anyone with any commonsense still uses Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. They're completely uncontrolled nonsense that I wouldn't trust with my email address. Let alone my phone number. Call me crazy or socially inept, but I value privacy.
https://www.axios.com/facebook-will-stop-asking-new-users-fo... Facebook told Axios that "a very small group of people have the option of entering their email password to verify their account when they sign up for Facebook," but noted that people could choose instead to confirm their account with a code or link sent to their phone or email. "That said, we understand the password verification option isn't the best way…
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As much as I dislike what Instagram “is”, it is pretty much the best platform for (non-public) photo sharing. If there was something better, I’d use it, but there is not.
Maybe I'm jaded, but I only share photos of my life via text or even sd card. No one needs to see my life, besides it's kinda boring. Even if my boring life means I shouldn't be worried about it being exposed, I dont want that out there. I dont know maybe I'm just weird hahah.
But suppose you did want to publish your content. For instance I make videos about tech and programming that I enjoy sharing with others and getting feedback on, so I post them on YouTube. Some people like to do that with their selfies or political commentary. To me that's all fine as long as they understand that it's no longer private.
The bigger privacy violations, imo, are the hidden ones. The web trackers, IoT data collection, location services, conversation metadata, etc. These are situations where it's not "public" like YouTube or Twitter, but it sure isn't private either.
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Maybe I'm jaded, but I only share photos of my life via text or even sd card. No one needs to see my life, besides it's kinda boring. Even if my boring life means I shouldn't be worried about it being exposed, I dont want that out there. I dont know maybe I'm just weird hahah.
Amateur photographer here, Instagram is invaluable. Post only what you want the world to see, and so on...
Perhaps there’s a value to gatekeeping. It can make us actually put effort and consideration into things. Modern web services like Instagram have allowed human fantasies to run wild, completely detached from reality. If you truly cared about your art and wanted it to be seen, you would devote yourself to that and work on getting into a gallery, or set up your own website. Instead you retreat to a fantasy world of online likes where you feel legitimized as an artist with zero real effort, and zero care or true appreciation on the audience’s part.
I dont know why anyone with any commonsense still uses Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. They're completely uncontrolled nonsense that I wouldn't trust with my email address. Let alone my phone number. Call me crazy or socially inept, but I value privacy.
You mention both common sense and personal values. I think it’s much more likely that people have different personal values than you than that people have less common sense than you.
All of these types of "hey, give us your password to this other system" are just training users to get phished. IMO the worst offender in this is Plaid, which has created a service where millions of people are giving their banking credentials so some random startup can mine your transaction data. And people think FB has privacy implications...
They need to be exposed. Or sued.