After multiple EU-based users complained about not being able to access Threads app through VPN, Meta confirmed it is blocking such efforts.
  • JesterRaiin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    2 years ago

    Why shouldn’t it? They are interested in personal data, not some fabricated online personalities.

    Let it be the perfect counterargument to every moron who says “I’m not that important”. Yes, you are. If you weren’t, the Big Tech wouldn’t go to such length to acquire all the data about you, they can put their sweaty palms on.

  • ehrenschwan@feddit.deEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I find this very hilarious after seeing so many people make threads accs and posting them to their stories on insta when you can’t even use the app. And I kept thinking about the mountaons of data their collecting.

    • NoisyOne57@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      It wasn’t even launched in the entirety of EU and the Republic of Ireland at all, because of GDPR concerns, but then, the Digital Markets Act also chimed in.