Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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Literal Hostage Situation (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 weeks ago by ecrevisse@feddit.org to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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Google photos on ios is literally a hostage situation. Remove key functionalities like copying an image or editing an image unless you give them full unrestricted access to your entire photo library. (The holy grail of surveillance capitalism data). Data extortion masquerading as a service.

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[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (11 children)

maybe they're serving different versions of the app to different regions or something. I am 100% sure this doesn't work for me.

[–] Underwire@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

That is a an Android feature. A user can select the media they want to share without giving full access to the media folder. It was introduced with Android 14.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

And apps have to support it, which WhatsApp doesn't

Edit: I was wrong, see below

[–] Underwire@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Not sure about that because I can use it with WhatsApp.

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