To consent or pay... that is the price tag on our privacy.

We have the right to opt-out of being tracked and profiled. But Meta says you have to cough up to #StopStalkerAds.

There should be an option that doesn't process personal data to use their services.

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/to-consent-or-pay/

#privacy #meta #adtech #consentorpay #dataprotection #gdpr

it could just be my algorithm but I like that half the people that appear on the fediverse are socialists and the other half are OSS people
#okay_my_feed_is_probably_biased #socialism #foss #floss #oss #meta #fediverse

Facebook can animate your profile pic with AI https://thever.ge/qTRc #Facebook #Meta #News #Tech #AI

Lawmakers Call on #Meta to #Stop Running #ICE Ad Featuring Neo-#Nazi Anthem by @a_campbellnews https://theintercept.com/2026/02/05/dhs-ice-ad-facebook-meta-instagram/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

🇫🇮 Meta sulki Digitaalinen itsenäisyys -aloitteen Threads-tilin. Mitä seuraavaksi? 🤔

Kansalaisaloitteemme, joka ajaa digitaalista itsenäisyyttä, sai juuri karun esimerkin siitä, mitä riippuvuus ulkomaisista alustoista tarkoittaa. Meta, joka omistaa Threadsin, sulki aloitteen tilin vedoten yhteisönormien rikkomiseen.

#DigitaalinenItsenäisyys #Meta #Threads #Sananvapaus #Suomi

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@stefano It's been my experience for years now that #instagram and #twitter are mostly populated by #bots.

I avoid #meta platforms as much as possible but in the times I have to log in, only bots and #toxic #algorithms are palpable.

#Reddit is marginally better. While there are (valuable) communities populated by real humans, the signal to noise ratio can be quite low. Unfortunately this isn't limited to bots.

Falls jemand die #Meta Domains auf #DNS Ebene blockieren möchte, kann ich aktuell diese Liste(n) empfehlen. GIbt es in mehreren Ausführungen, für verschiedene DNS Server.

https://github.com/Bundy01/meta-blocklists

#facebook #instagram #threads #adguard #pihole #homelab #selfhosting

I don't know if this is stupid or just plain crazy.

Reuters: EU threatens temporary measures to stop Meta blocking AI rivals from WhatsApp https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-threatens-meta-with-interim-measure-blocking-ai-rivals-whatsapp-2026-02-09/ @Reuters #Meta #WhatsApp #privacy

CNBC: Meta starts big week in court, with opening arguments beginning in New Mexico, LA trials https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/09/meta-big-week-in-court-opening-arguments-in-new-mexico-la-trials.html @cnbc #Meta #Facebook #instagram

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La Commission européenne accuse Meta d'entraver la concurrence en limitant l'accès des chatbots tiers à l'API WhatsApp, déclenchant la première procédure majeure du DMA dans le domaine de l'IA.

#news #meta #facebook #kunstlicheintelligenz #wirtschaft

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The EU alleges Meta is illegally favoring its own AI by blocking rival chatbots from WhatsApp's data, marking a critical DMA enforcement test.

#news #meta #facebook #kunstlicheintelligenz #wirtschaft

O nouă confruntare 🇪🇺#UE – Big Tech, pe fondul tensiunilor cu #Washington␁ul.
#ComisiaEuropeană (@EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu) a notificat #Meta cu o solicitare legată de chatboturile AI concurente.

🔗 https://wp.me/p9KpFA-55mP

#Știri #UniuneaEuropeană #SUA #Tehnologie #InteligențaArtificială #AI

#ComisiaEuropeană (@EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu) avertizează #Meta că ar putea fi sancționată dacă își mai favorizează propriul chatbot și nu permite accesul și altor asistenți AI, dezvoltați de companii terțe, pe 📞#WhatsApp. Măsura ar putea amplifica și mai mult tensiunile dintre 🇪🇺#UE și 🇺🇸#SUA.

🔗 https://biziday.ro/?p=347633

#Știri #UniuneaEuropeană #Tehnologie #InteligențaArtificială #AI

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Une plateforme en ligne dédiée au son immersif de qualité studio, défiant les limites du streaming compressé.

#meta #metal #heavymetal #metalsucks #launch

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A direct-to-fan venture bypassing physical media to deliver definitive, uncompromised immersive audio.

#meta #metal #heavymetal #metalsucks #launch

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Der Progressive-Rock-Pionier demokratisiert hochauflösende, räumliche Audioformate über eine direkte digitale Vertriebsplattform.

#meta #metal #heavymetal #launch #metalsucks

Four Big Tech Companies Avoid $51 Billion in Taxes in Wake of #Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act

“ The annual financial reports recently released by #Amazon, #Alphabet, #Meta, and #Tesla disclose that these corporations collectively reported $315 billion in US profits for 2025.

Yet they collectively paid just 4.9% of that amount in federal corporate income taxes not the usual 21% federal rate.

Tesla paying exactly zero.”

https://itep.org/trump-meta-tesla-alphabet-amazon-obbba-taxes/

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Une course stratégique pour les métaux critiques, malgré des risques écologiques profonds et inconnus.

#llm #bot #meta #exploit #progressivenews

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Ein strategischer Wettlauf um kritische Metalle kollidiert mit unkalkulierbaren ökologischen Risiken.

#llm #bot #meta #exploit #progressivenews

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A high-stakes national experiment to break China's stranglehold on rare earth elements, risking profound and unknown ecological damage.

#llm #meta #progressivenews #millmessenger #critical

Quite true. I explained the misaligned incentives of platform owners and users yesterday to my psychologist in the context of #Meta. Took all of 2 minutes.

This is particularly true of centralized #socialmedia.

In the #fediverse, without the algorithms constantly driving to anxiety, the user has control - and responsibility.

#psychology

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-philosopher-is-in/202602/a-new-form-of-activism-getting-off-social-media/amp

"The most valuable resource of the 21st century is your attention – and no one cultivates it more efficiently than Mark Zuckerberg. In 2025, Meta generated $196 billion in advertising revenue."*

I especially like the first part of the sentence, i.e. #attention being the most valuable #resource these days - this is something you should internalise. It's an investors perspective and it's verisimilitude is confirmed by the company values of this industry (#Meta , #Google, #Twitter, etc.).

From an individual perspective this is true as well - for you and me attention means #time, and time is the only resource we'll never be able to gain, we automatically lose it with every passing second.

It's therefore outrageous how much time people give away freely, to companies, who's business model is maximizing the time you spend on them. And just as a side note - apparently, according to the newsletter this quote is taken from, soon Meta will even ask you to pay for it. Absurd. Yet, in Germany the average #screentime is ~5h per day, with nearly 3h going to #socialmedia apps like #Facebook, #Instagram, #tiktok etc.

I wonder, what's your life worth to yourself?

* Source: Scalable Capital Bits & Pieces Edition #265 | KW 6: Der Falke im Nest, Werbung vs. Abo und NVIDIA im Auto; Newsletter; translated from German by me.

#thoughts #philosophy #living #limitedlife #lifetime #valuable #valueyourself

The documents provide smoking-gun evidence that Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok all purposefully designed their social media products to addict children and teens with no regard for known harms to their wellbeing, and how that mass youth addiction was core to the companies’ business models. The documents contain internal discussions among company employees, presentations from internal meetings, expert testimony, and evidence of Big Tech coordination with tech-funded groups, including the National Parent Teachers Association (PTA) and Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), in attempts to control the narrative in response to concerned parents.

“These unsealed documents prove Big Tech has been gaslighting and lying to the public for years

#BigTech #GAFAM #Google #Meta #TikTok #Snap #teens #mentalhealth #privacy #surveillance #addiction #drugs

I studied 10 years of Instagram posts. Here’s how social media has changed
#Instagram #Meta #SocialMedia #Algorithms #AI #Trends #DigitalCulture #MediaStudies #Journalism #PlatformPower #UserBehavior #OnlineSociety #Enshittification #Reels
https://the-14.com/i-studied-10-years-of-instagram-posts-heres-how-social-media-has-changed/

@stfn From the Masto side I'm grateful it is (even if in a total shit way) because I have friends who are not on Fedi and that's my one way to see their posts (at least the ones on Threads).

Frustrating to think I can boost and none of the engagement from here would reach them.

Knowing that most friends won't leave the major platforms, its nice to dream of ways to keep connected in a way that doesn't require direct presence on those platforms.

#threads #meta #fediverse #mastodon

It's amazing to me how perfectly integrated Threads is into Mastodon, but the vice versa still isn't true. Posts are kept in a separate category with little to no way to interact.

Did Meta give up on Fedi?

#threads #meta #mastodon #fediverse #activitypub

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La Cour d'appel de Dresde interdit la collecte sur les sites tiers et refuse un recours devant la Cour fédérale de justice, créant un précédent juridique contraignant.

#news #mastodon #socialmedia #meta #entertainment

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Das Oberlandesgericht Dresden verweigert die Revision zum BGH und bestätigt die Illegalität der Datensammlung auf Drittwebseiten.

#news #mastodon #socialmedia #meta #entertainment

The #administrativesubpoena gambit.

#DHS #Google #meta

https://newrepublic.com/post/206088/homeland-security-67-year-old-us-citizen-criticized-email

We added our Vivaldi Social server to the Fediverse on November 15th 2022. We are still, I believe, the only browser company that is fully behind the Fediverse. It is something we are very proud of! The Fediverse is the natural alternative to Big Tech social media, just like, IMHO, Vivaldi is the natural alternative to Big Tech browsers.

#Vivaldi #Fediverse #Mastodon #Twitter #SocialMedia #AI #Meta #Facebook #Instagram

https://vivaldi.com/blog/news/vivaldi-social-a-new-mastodon-instance/