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by r-spaghetti 1067 days ago
Why does anyone take this marketing spin seriously? No one in Europe is waiting for another data collector from the world's biggest internet criminal.
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>No one in Europe is waiting for another data collector from the world's biggest internet criminal.

Surely nobody in Europe would use an app designed to share photos of themselves on the public web and from said company.

Apparently many are, giving that they're whining about not being able to access threads even with a VPN.
Lucky you. You haven't met any actual internet criminals, it seems.
Are you arguing that Meta isn't breaking any laws? Including the GDPR?
Probably more along the lines of "Meta doesn't commit identity theft, ruin my credit score, or drain my bank account." The harms are far more abstract and theoretically, thus calling them criminals can come across as a little histrionic even if technically correct.
Eh, this site almost certainly violates GDPR. If you're going to go around calling jaywalkers criminals, then fine, but then you'll quickly stop getting the emotional reaction you are begging for when you use the word.
Their whole promo is scam 'faster growing than ChatGPT' you wish Zuckerberg, you just migrated existing users nothing more.