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by Nevermark 87 days ago
> You don’t have to share everything I mentioned just to be involved in a group.

This is clearly true. There is an implied point here but I am not sure what.

They share in their profile what they want other people to see. And often choose to not fill out everything. Nobody signs up to share with Meta, Inc.

Most people would love a "[ ] Do not share with Facebook".

People choosing an imperfect option, from imperfect options, are not demonstrating evidence they don't care about the imperfections.

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They are explicitly adding their information to FB why do they need a button to not share the information? Would the button disable them from checking in and updating their profile?
An E2EE system (e.g. as offered by Apple iCloud). Or a terms of service guarantee. (e.g. Dropbox, Anthropic and 1000 other companies that partition sharable user content from non-support divisions.)

> Would the button disable them from checking in and updating their profile?

No.

When you post a check in, your relationship status, your pictures without setting your sharing preferences and update your profile - you are specifically doing with the intention to share. WhatsApp is E2E encrypted
I already gave you a storage/share E2EE example.

I suggest that when things keep going over your head, like they did here, just Google the topic.

And when people are kind enough to reply to your confusion, read with a little more care.

I am not confused at all.

You’re arguing that people care about their privacy when they are explicitly sharing private information above what is needed to participate in FB.

You are completely wrong and your argument is illogical. People may not know that FB is making a profile of you based on your behavior. But logically, if I add to my profile that my favorite site is “grandma-midget-porn.com” [1], that I care that people don’t know I like senior citizen midgets

[1] Please don’t let that be a real website.

Please reread what i wrote from the start more carefully.

I am not claiming what percentage of people care or not. I made a valid point of what is evidence or not, for not caring.

You also responded to my E2EE reference without absorbing the example.

It isn’t a big deal. We can move on.