Comment on Anyone know of a FOSS type kids messenger?
Joelk111@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
TIL Meta Messenger Kids exists. Yikes.
Just building shadow profiles until they hit 13 to syphon the fuck out of everyone’s data!
I found out any pictures you upload to FB of your kids, each get their own profile, frequency they appear on your orioles, etc. They build massive profiles around these kids just to tie it all together later!
Source for this? I’m trying to convince grandparents to stop posting pics. It’s… Frustrating.
I’m not in the situation yet, but once i have kids I’ll tell my parents that, if i ever see a picture of my kids in any of those bs platforms (fb, Whatsapp…) they’ll never get another picture. parents have the ultimate decision about such things, if somebody else doesn’t respect your decision, they need to live with the consequences.
it might sound harsh, but seems to be the only really working strategy. i gave up explaining them stuff over a decade ago.
3 of the 4 are great about it, the 4th, while being careful (almost paranoid) about privacy, lives on Facebook and doesn’t get it, no matter what I’ve tried. We haven’t sent pictures in a long while.
Yes I have a couple sources. I hate to link a YT video, so I’ll use invidious. Both are great informative videos, but I don’t want to take up your time.
However, check this link first because it might be speculation without hard evidence, while other evidence points to them doing this exact thing but for adults or people 13+ news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20167085
Its at the very end at 10 minutes redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=Yv2Eb_kJous
Also here at 12:25 mark on the video redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=9wknq-Ra-KU
Not just for kids. They let politicians and billionaires on there, too!
… /s … oh GOD I hope /s
jaxxed@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
It’s worse than you think.
When I first looked t you couldn’t use it in the EU because it didn’t meet child protection laws.