soziawa

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by soziawa 9y ago
It's not even end to end encrypted by default. That's the main reason why you shouldn't use it.
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by soziawa 9y ago
It says fastest growing course. At my university it's also the fastest growing course. It grew from 0 to 50 students in the last semester.
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by soziawa 9y ago
(1) Or it could have been just another way to add a little more data to your profile. And even if you are right, I don't think you are but if you were, do you really want a company to do psychological experiments with you without your
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by soziawa 9y ago
It's not even a correct Swiss flag. The Swiss flag is rectangular.
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by soziawa 9y ago
It's still an issue.
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by soziawa 9y ago
I feel like searching for natural flow will not give me the results I want.
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by soziawa 9y ago
Why not build a browser plugin that visits 5 random websites for each site you visit.
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by soziawa 9y ago
I don't think the same goes for Google is true. While both show you ads Google puts them in the context of websites in the internet which is not a priori trustworthy. Facebook on the other hand puts them into the context of people you
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by soziawa 9y ago
They haven't won anything. It was given to them by the cofounder of WhatsApp because he dislikes Facebook. Nonprofit doesn't mean the developers don't have to eat. Money has to come from somewhere.
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by soziawa 9y ago
Easy. I respond on Threema within 30 minutes and on WhatsApp within half a week.
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by soziawa 9y ago
Because it started with Trump and Trump makes people click on headlines. They have now realised that Facbeook is bad also makes people click on headlines. That's all. In any half serious newspaper this isn't big news but more of a
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by soziawa 9y ago
I'm not surprised. But then again does Google give that data to some shady app a friend of me has installed? I don't think so.
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by soziawa 9y ago
> Facebook's network effect is extremely strong But it has to stay stronger than it's bad reputation. If the only thing you have is a network effect you are in a very bad place. Everyone I know used to be on MSN and then within
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by soziawa 9y ago
While Signal is nice it's rather worrying that it's free. I'd rather use a paid alternative like Threema.
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by soziawa 9y ago
I don't think it was even clear on paper. It never said store forever or even store.
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by soziawa 9y ago
> What Facebook acquired from their users was "expressed consent" I'm not so sure about that, but that's what courts are for.
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by soziawa 9y ago
> Much of this blame goes on Android and some on iOS/Apple. Which part of the blame goes on Apple?
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by soziawa 9y ago
They do that automatically through your phone number and device identifier which they have access to.
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by soziawa 9y ago
> What about every other app that requests permission to see that data? Of course they'll collect and save it somewhere as well.
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by soziawa 9y ago
> In the EU only though. That's enough for me.
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by soziawa 9y ago
And they'll know who you contacted and when. That allows for a lot of things to be guessed. Especially with hundreds of thousands of messages per user available to them. Yeah, but my ISP has to follow the local laws and I can easily sw
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by soziawa 9y ago
While bad I think it's worse that the location available through your IP is available to facebook. Further they can guess with which contacts you work with, are good or not so good friends with. And it will be kept forever at Facebook
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by soziawa 9y ago
But it shares all the metadata with Facebook which sucks. Threema and Signal are better in that respect and you loose almost no features.
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by soziawa 9y ago
Wire has a very complicated UI. My mum can't use it and most of my friends don't really understand it either. Telegram copied WhatsApp which in turn copied SMS which is very simple and easy to understand.
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by soziawa 9y ago
But Facebook gets all your metadata which sucks. You'd better use something like Threema or Signal.
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by soziawa 9y ago
Most messengers offer a desktop client.
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by soziawa 9y ago
But everything is made by Facebook, the only difference is branding. It's like saying that Facebook Messenger only belongs to Facebook but isn't Facebook.
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by soziawa 9y ago
They'll know through your IP.
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by soziawa 9y ago
I have deleted facebook years ago and didn't really need a replacement, it was just never useful to me. WhatsApp: This is tougher since everyone is expected to have an account there. I really like Threema as alternative, it has most of
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by soziawa 9y ago
But they get all your location data. They'll know that you met for coffee.

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