It could cost Meta 32 billion.
US law: “Best I can do is 15 thousand.”
EU law: “How about percentage of global revenue per infraction?”
As if they’d impose maximum penalties, no matter how deserved. But hey, fingers crossed!
And imho the whole issue can be avoided by using mobile websites and/or alternative app front-ends for meta services, if you can’t steer clear of them altogether.
And blocking apps from using background data should seal the deal.
I have webrtc completely disabled in browsers.
I tell everyone, and I abide by : never use an app if you can use the website. If they only have an app be prepared to be fucked.
I also use a VPN / firewall / DNS filter (by domain and by IP). Rethink or invizible provide all 3 in 1 on android. On linux rotating VPNs, rotating local DNS resolvers [dnscrypt-proxy with local doh with blacklists], and strict firewall rules.
*Facebook* , *meta*, *Instagram* etc are blocked in and out. As are Google “safety” domains, and a lot of their APIs.
Privacy may be inconvenient, but selling (giving away for likes) your soul to the devil could cost you a lot more.
I doubt a lot of Lemmy users have got those apps on their phones. Although I am curious about how it would affect people who, say, used Island or similar (leverage the Work profile) to install them as I have seen that suggested in privacy communities before. Would Meta only be able to access other apps installed to that profile - if you had a browser installed in it too for example?
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