[u2077]

Look at that app privacy report. I didn’t expect anything less from Meta. Let’s hope they aren’t using all our Mastodon accounts for advertising too.

[threeseed]

Well I for one am actually looking forward to relevant ads.

On Twitter I've been shown everything from industrial mining supplies, nipple covers, psychology research papers, super yachts, home shopping network junk and just now an ad for an oral dosing technology conference.

[aniforprez]

Twitter is positively inundating me with "ads" from people boosting their twitter profiles, all dedicated to crypto, health "hacks", finance gurus, yoga teachers etc etc. I feel like Apple ads were the ones I saw most and now I've not seen an Apple ad in over a week. It really feels like advertisers are all pulling out

[data-ottawa]

I’m finding Apple News actually provides me ads I click, and Reddit did briefly too. Neither of those apps ask nearly what Threads is asking. They are more tailored towards the content being shown though, and I turn down permissions whenever I can.

Anecdotally I’ve never purposefully clicked an ad on Twitter, I think either the buyers or the algorithms are off there.

[iopq]

You get ads on Twitter? Strange, my adblocker still works on the web version

[astrange]

That's always happened to me; I think if you follow any doctors, it shows you ads for medical conferences, but I can't tell if that's Twitter messing up or the people placing the ads setting the display audiences wrong.

[seaal]

Every possible category of information for a Twitter clone? Impressive.

[jacooper]

Its not like twitter is any better.

[arbus5672]

This seems like a largely lost cause.

I appreciate that Apple has their privacy practices highlighted in a easy to read card so that developers don’t get to hide it in legalease and a click away in a privacy policy.

The next step would be to actually prompt users about this, in the same way that you would get a prompt confirming that if you would like to download a large app when on mobile data. “It looks like you are trying to install the app Threads which reads the following information about you. Are you sure you would like to proceed?”

This would be a natural progressing of the “Ask not to track” dialog that they implemented awhile ago

[bogwog]

or simply add a colored indicator next to the download button. If an app collects too much info, it shows a glowing red exclamation mark; if it collects nothing, it's a green smiley face.