Oh so many.
Comment on Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared
realitista@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
People still use the Facebook spyware app on their phone?
lath@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Pirate@feddit.org 17 hours ago
More people use facebook today than they used in 2015 when you were using it.
About 3x more people.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
Is that mainly in India and Southeast Asia? For some people there Facebook is “the internet”, almost like a modern day AOL. Zuck would jizz himself if he could send you free trial CDs twice a week packed with his spyware.
Pirate@feddit.org 15 hours ago
This page has all the information you might need on the topic. India is on top, but the US is a solid second place.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
194 million US users? That’s got to be bullshit. That’s almost two thirds of the population. Even if they claimed half of the population, I would still call bullshit.
Maybe I would believe 1/2 of people over 60. And that goes down as we lower the age. If we’re talking under 30 years old, I might believe 1/5, maybe.
These fake numbers are how they defraud advertisers and data broker scammers.
thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
some additional relevant statistics
united states barely saw 1% growth year over year in the United States and are projecting that growth to continue to slow.
India has nearly 3x the users of the United States. the u.s. is still second because it’s the country it started in, but it’s not far ahead of the 3rd and 4th place countries. India is an extreme outlier.
unfortunately they don’t break down the age demographic by region, but I’d bet that if we specifically look at daily active users in the United States the age demo would skew much older.
so, it seems like it’s similar to what many fast food restaurants have been experiencing lately. the growth opportunities in the United States dried up so the decided to push like hell everywhere else. i bet the growth they saw in India over the last decade was explosive. probably bigger than anything they had ever seen before. bigger than when it was still growing in the u.s… meanwhile they protect that over the next decade in the u.s. they’ll see maybe 8% user growth and that’s pretty optimistic.
so we probably won’t actually see much Facebook marketing in the u.s… the only way they can capture more u.s users is by buying more apps, like when they bought Instagram.
realitista@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I mean I still use it sometimes, I just don’t use that app. It used to be one of my heaviest battery drains even though I didn’t even use it more than a few times a week.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 21 hours ago
My parents still do
zerozaku@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Young people have Instagram spyware on their phones and old people have Facebook spyware.
hietsu@sopuli.xyz 19 hours ago
Forgot WhatsApp there, de facto messaging app in my part of globe, be it young or old…
zerozaku@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Same here. I wanted to include it too but it is not as quite bad as the other two(at least I hope so because I can’t avoid it). But yeah you never know with these Meta apps.
hietsu@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
Oh it’s just as bad, believe me. Have restricted its access to only pre-selected photos, disabled running in background but that’s about all I can do. It has to have access to my contacts to be usable, and who knows what they do with that data.