Right now they collect meta data to map connections to reinforce FB and IG relationships to keep you in their ecosystem. They’ve been trying to work out to ads like Viber has for years.
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TheBat@lemmy.world 1 day agoBut there are no ads in whatsapp?
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
TheBat@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I only use whatsapp though. Never used insta and deleted fb years back, probably in 2017-18.
hansolo@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
Doesn’t matter, as much info as you shared gets put into a profile. Then what WiFi networks you connect to, your location, plus your old FB profile, all get triangulated to others. So Meta still cares because if you rejoin FB next week, it’ll suggest people it knows you are physically close to.
I use a creeper FB account at work with zero info even close to me IRL, and because our external IP addresses are the same, of auto suggests any of my colleagues that log on to their FB at work.
merc@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Not yet, but there don’t need to be. As I said, Whatsapp is owned by Meta which is part of a duopoly (along with Google) that controls virtually all ads on the Internet. They slurp all your private data in Whatsapp and use it to target ads to you on every other internet site and every other app where they power the ads. In addition, since Whatsapp has all your contacts, they use that data too. Using what they know about you as part of the ad profile for your mom, your sister, your boyfriend, etc.
Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
That weird blue ai circle I saw them put in the app sure looks like one fat unremovable nag-ad.
Same with the status stuff. They tried turning it into a social media by shoving crap in your face you didn’t want and making it impossible to remove. How is that not an ad?
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
They collect your data via WhatsApp and send you adds all over the internet