WhatsApp gets Any.do integration for tasks and reminders, adds call waiting support (by Pranob Mehrotra) https://ift.tt/33VBx3Z

another Telegram Kang-ed feature 🤨

Facebook collects data on what you do offline and connects it your account

For EU residents, Facebook is having you re-confirm a bunch of privacy related settings when you sign in. I noticed [this bit](https://imgur.com/RKoccl9) one one of the pages. I know we shouldn't be surprised, but here is proof that they collect data from offline partners and match it with your profile.

https://redd.it/e7v711
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basically: we are running after you to better tune our algorithms to stalk you and read your mind to serve better ads because -we are
F A C E B O O K

The story of how surveillance capitalism is killing web.

internet is not the same anymore

Internet isn't the same anymore, I don't do anything online besides check emails, pay bills, go on reddit ,blogs, and invdious. Internet used to be full of exciting sites and information. Now days, it's all controlled by giant search engines. You can create an interesting site but if google censor it or if you end up in page 134, nobody will visit ur site. Big corporation is controlling the media and I don't like it.

https://redd.it/ee1hz9
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Someone confirmed an SMS code from my phone without having the code sent to me

Hey all,

I haven’t had a Facebook account in years - and I don’t intend to have one again.

I woke up to a text on my personal business cell phone line... saying that I was confirmed for SMS texts.

The problem is that I never received a confirmation code to confirm...

But somehow someone has successfully bypassed the code being sent to my phone... and still activated the account?

Facebook shows an account under my phone number - but I have yet to attempt to recover or login to it - for fear of identifying information about my location, computer, etc being seen and recorded.

How is this possible?

And Facebook seriously has such crap support that I can only find help filling out a form that states “if you are having troubles verifying your account” fill this form..

So, I’m worried that someone can receive SMS codes that are intended for my phone number and device only...

And I’m worried that someone has more details on me and is making a Facebook account with malicious intent that I can’t do shit about.

Help please? :S

https://redd.it/ee5lsk
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Oh how I hate Facebook, a rant

I'm forced to use facebook for communication in university, since apparently all announcements and such are made there. I made a profile with my real name (so classmates could find me) but nothing else. Anime girl as pfp, nothing in the way of descriptions, never posted anything.

FB locked my account today lol, asking for captcha (fine..), then SMS verification (used my burner), then a photo of myself. Wtf. I downloaded an AI generated face and uploaded it, after all, I never had any content posted before so how tf are they going to verify?

They locked the account anyway and are "reviewing my submission" lmao. Might as well just make a new one at this point

https://redd.it/eeohq9
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Let's Start a list of things to check for your privacy in 2020

1. Reset advertising id in Google, Microsoft, etc.
2. Opt out of customization in Google, Microsoft, apple, etc.
3. Disable sharing credit worthiness in Google pay settings
4. Turn off location sharing for most all apps
5. Search for your name/address in various websites, whitepages.com, peoplefinders, anywho, etc. Go through the opt out process.
6. Turn off constant listening of Google assistant or siri, etc. Go to settings in assistant and turn off "hey Google"
7. Delete location history in Google, etc.
8. Kill Facebook account, ot at least review who has uploaded info on you in Facebook settings, and review what information is shared about you. Review what apps have access to your Facebook account
9. Review what apps have access to your Google account, in Google account
10. Delete unnecessary apps from phones, programs from desktop
11. Delete cookies
12. Manage optouts http://optout.networkadvertising.org
13. Check your ad blocker is working on your browsers


What else?

https://redd.it/eh70n1
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