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> Interesting nugget: the author repeats the lies that apple doesn't collect/store/index your data. I did not saw this in the article... Can you elaborate on this like copy/pasting the line(s) from the article please?
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Unfortunately it's not that simple for everyone. I personally would lose contact with a lot of people if I delete Messenger or Whatsapp. On all my contacts, I have two on Signal, zero on Matrix.
Is Facebook messenger not available in the browser?
I can't even figure out how to use it from my mobile device without installing an app.
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> I personally would lose contact with a lot of people if I delete Messenger or Whatsapp See Beeper (bridges to various chat apps based on Matrix.org): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25848278
This doesn't provide end-to-end-encryption for WhatsApp so I'd actually call this worse than just using WhatsApp in the first place. Facebook gets all the data and your messages are stored somewhere (either at Beeper or on your own server) as plaintext.
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Is Facebook messenger not available in the browser?
Not really. Have you tried it? It doesn't really work. I can't even figure out how to use it from my mobile device without installing an app.
It even has some extra features, like LaTeX support.
I guess you mean it doesn't work on mobile browsers? (Never tried that)
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> Interesting nugget: the author repeats the lies that apple doesn't collect/store/index your data. I did not saw this in the article... Can you elaborate on this like copy/pasting the line(s) from the article please?
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It says that there are only four things linked to you when you use imessage.
one of those is "device id". It doesn't say thatit ties you to your icloud account. From that your location, passwords, icloud tabs, photos, purchases, etc, etc, etc are all indexable.
Or just delete Facebook apps.
A user can disable geo-tagging or the better(?) disable precise location in Settings.app > Privacy > Camera. Like mentioned in the article, there a lot of EXIF strips in Appstore too but I’m not sure if a regular user would take the road of take photo > go to exif stripper > delete exif on photo > save the photo > go to facebook > upload to facebook
Then again, I don't use facebook and I do strip exif if I want to upload a photo somewhere I don't want to share my location. (and I can do this with termux and the same tool I'd use this on my PC, just run exiftool -all= foo.jpg)
I get that it is not a sensible solution for the average user. But the problem is not exif-tags. It is facebook and the current ad ecosystem.
On android a file-picker that could optionally remove exif-data when a file is chosen seems like an easy workaround for the time being.