In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like “headphone status” and “screen density.”

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Facebook won’t let me login to delete mine unless I send them a photo of my drivers license. Not gonna happen.

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Same thing was happening to me, tried again after a couple of days and it just logged in without asking anything 🤷‍♂️

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Happened to me. Had a fake profile to test some apps and when they asked for an ID, I literally sent a pic of my MIDDLE FINGER. They accepted.

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Did you make sure to remove the EXIF metadata? It would be ironic if it has the image location coordinates in it.

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They can get your location to various degrees of precision just from your IP address.

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Seriously? I’ve never even given it an email I use, let alone phone number, where do they get off asking for ID?

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He may also be an admin of a Facebook page. I was an admin for my job’s (an absolutely important to no one but our community company) page, and Facebook suddenly decided one day that I was a ‘high value person of interest’ , which made me a possible hacking target. The wanted all kinds of personal info, including a copy of my ID, to prove I wasn’t some hacker, or they would disable all my access. Fuck no I’m not giving you that, go ahead and disable me

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200 iq move by facebook, now they have the biometric reading from the nail on your middle finger

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Same here. I didn’t sign in for a few years, and next time I did, they demanded my drivers license. Why would I possibly send my ID to this shitty website? They way overestimate their importance.

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