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Meta now lets you block Instagram from collecting your data - SamMobile (www.sammobile.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

IIUC the title is misleading. Meta will still grab any data it can, it just won't (or at least promises not to, for whatever that's worth) complement whatever it collects with additional data from other sources or share your data with its partners.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Yes, data collecting is still happening, they just dont want to share with competitors. (And they get a few goodwill headlines suggesting meta is somehow "blocking data collection" haha)