Facebook is an online social media and social networking service owned by American technology giant Meta Platforms. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, its name derives from the face book directories often given to American university students. Membership was initially limited to only Harvard students, gradually expanding to other North American universities and, since 2006, anyone over 13 years old. As of December 2022, Facebook claimed 2.96 billion monthly active users, and ranked third worldwide among the most visited websites. It was the most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s. Taken from Wikipedia.
Terms of Service, Privacy Policy
Big mistake providing any type of information to Meta.
Might be a few hiccups here and there, but you can make it work with either AnonAddy or SimpleLogin.
Namely 2FA over SMS, but that's arguably the least secure 2FA method out there.
All Facebook page managers need to submit an ID if they want to make a page. Honestly, I'd rather make a Twitter account than a Facebook page.
You honestly don't need to read the Privacy Policy to tell Facebook is spyware.
Gonna sound like a broken record here, but Facebook is spyware.
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They even log when you've scrolled past a post. Jesus.
They don't explicitly say they have 3rd party service providers, but the way they worded it pretty much confirms they're not in house.
One of Facebook's biggest crime in the eyes of... well, everyone.
They're called Integrated Partners and include 3rd party advertisers. I'm kinda surprised Facebook welcomes some competition.
How else are they supposed to build a scarily accurate profile on you?
This was my first encounter with the illusion of free will switches. Even when I turned them all off I still somehow got personalized ads. That was when I decided to stop being a sucker for Meta.
And it's surprisingly got updated when Tor phased out v2 addresses. Huh.
Don't let the Privacy Policy fool you, Facebook was found indefinitely storing data of banned accounts with no way for them to access the delete option due to them being banned. Folks, Facebook sucks.
Facebook goes through a lot of effort to expose people who register under aliases and pretty much forces you to use your real name when using it (more reading here). This is definitely an extra deduction in my book.
Worst part is this can happen either after you create your account or months after. Do yourselves a favor and stay away from any and all Meta products.
"We can't have you looking at the source code and finding out how much we spy on you"
- A definitely real Meta representative I had coffee with this morning.
Frost is pretty much the best Android Facebook client out there. For desktop just use it in a privacy respecting browser with Ublock Origin. Although if I were you, I'd never use it at all.
Facebook is the product and Meta is the company. Your loss, Zuckerberg.
Open up your search engine, and type in "Cambridge Analytica data scandal".
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Analysis: This right here's the deep end folks. You'll find no lower SPT score than Facebook's. I'll admit, Facebook was the main reason I made the SPT to begin with. I wanted to expose it as the horrible spyware platform it is to my friends and family, all of whom use Facebook on a daily basis. Eventually I ended up retrofitting it so I could apply it to any other privacy disrespecting service they use as well. Maybe in the first iteration of the SPT Facebook would have had the lowest score possible, But for now a -95 should tell you just how bad it is for privacy. Facebook is a bad company, that's no secret. Unfortunately a lot of countries, mine included, still use it frequently and build their entire internet profile around it. In hindsight, it was pretty foolish of the world to open arm welcome a platform that can house every single personal tidbit about you and all that info being completely accessible to some strangers from halfway across the world. Then again, tech illiteracy was pretty high back in the 2000s so I can't exactly blame them. Regardless, we need to stop relying on a bad product run by an evil company and start jumping ship before Facebook inevitably crashes due to Zuckerberg pouring too much money into bootleg VR Chat. Like MLK, I have a dream that one day every single person in the world stops using Facebook and realizes just how much of their privacy they gave up when signing up for an account. If you're a business or company looking to advertise there I'd normally recommend against it, but I've seen firsthand just how much a local population relies on Facebook for shopping and markets, so the best I can do is inform you that you will be giving up a lot of your privacy in doing so. Once Facebook finally dies maybe people will start considering alternative social media sites like Mastodon or Diaspora.