in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn’t use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing “hundreds of pages of Facebook documents,” reported that Facebook “gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.”
Surprising? No. Appalling? Yes.
If you want private messaging - use Signal.
If you use any kind of messaging on commercial platforms, expect immediate loss of privacy. They call them “direct” messages for a reason.Good luck being private when your phone number is attached to all your messages. I’ll see you on Wire.
It was fixed a month ago https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/
No. That doesn’t eliminate the need to use a phone number! It’s just ‘hidden’.
That’s not the point. It was statet that each message is associated with the number. But it isn’t. The only way to achieve this in Signal is getting into your phone.
Meta is a dog shit in the middle of a dumpster. Episode 36384927339
