This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like "headphone status" and "screen density."
Wait, they're trying to check the status of your headphone? That's way too far. Why do they need to know if the headphone's plugged in?
So much Threads panic, yet we're apparently willing to just believe whatever DuckDuckGo says, even though the company has a pretty terrible track record.
Go look at the permissions Threads is granted. Mine has Notifications and nothing else. Android won't let it have access to most of the information in that list.
"Known to collect" - this app is sending data back to Facebook and we've made some wild ass assumptions about what that data might be in order to scare you into getting all your friends to download our browser. Worked pretty well, huh.
Oh cool, the bots are here.
ITT: Users not having any fucking clue what's going on, and laughing at a client that was clearly released in a few days. As if it's not blatantly obvious they are going to add the reddit and Twitter features later. Threads is going to own fediverse, deal with it.
Delete them? Just dont install the damn app, stop using facebook!
