I would not let any of these icons near my devices. You could write a book about all the bad decisions this company made. Actually, somebody already did.
Just a few headlines from last week:
- Meta announced the launch of a new artificial intelligence image generator that allows anyone to create AI images based on your Instagram photos.
- EU threatens Meta with fines over ‘addictive’ Facebook and Instagram
- Meta’s Teen Safety Case Just Became a $1.4 Trillion Existential Threat
- Meta Thinks It Can Convince You That Smart Glasses Need Facial Recognition
- CAA calls out Meta and Instagram for making Muse AI tool opt-out
- Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang’s Instagram photo tip could be your biggest privacy nightmare
- Meta patents AI device that listens to you all day to track your mood
- Meta AI To Start Using Your Data For Targeted Ads—Here’s How And When
- Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
„wolf in sheep’s clothing“ 5.0.
But that expression is far too mild for this ruthless company. Billions of people are being deceived by them.
People are too stupid to drop WhatsApp.
WhatsApp: I’d rather not.
Alas, people hub my social groups in WA groups, delete the Signal app from their phones without deleting their Signal account, look at me strangely when I add them to a Signal group asking me whether this can’t be a WA group and so on and so on.
Similarities exist to wanting to consume music at a streaming service not called Spotify.
Life’s complicated.