The adtech business model is predicated on the maximum invasion of privacy that is permitted by law (and the law has been quite accomodating of "innovation" in this space).
It is a necessary but thankless job to document how they get away with it. My pessimistic take is its not going to move the needle. There is a huge captive audience (the most likely users of threads are existing users of facebook and instagram) that has been socially engineered not to worry about privacy.
Internal cannibalism between surveillance capitalists aside, the true change will only come when authoritative bodies (public sector and other institutions) walk the talk, vocally refuse to use these platforms and throw their weight behind the fediverse.
It is a necessary but thankless job to document how they get away with it. My pessimistic take is its not going to move the needle. There is a huge captive audience (the most likely users of threads are existing users of facebook and instagram) that has been socially engineered not to worry about privacy.
Internal cannibalism between surveillance capitalists aside, the true change will only come when authoritative bodies (public sector and other institutions) walk the talk, vocally refuse to use these platforms and throw their weight behind the fediverse.
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