Let's take a close-up look at the "data privacy" disclosures of other social media services, as listed on the Google Play App Store.
The punchline: CounterSocial collects and shares ZERO data. No other social media site can claim the same.
For a high-resolution version, click on the link below. #CoSoTips
By popular request, Facebook's "Threads" app has been added to this matrix.
This right here is what sets us apart. They exist to EXPLOIT you. We exist to SERVE you.
These are unedited screenshots pulled moments ago from the Google Play App Store.
They're telling you this themselves. #CoSoTips
You weren't going to go and read the data privacy disclosures of other social media sites, so we compiled them for you.
The short version: It's a dangerous world out there. #CoSoTips
^^ What separates CounterSocial from everyone else?
Download the "high resolution" version, and see for yourself. #CoSoTips
^^ ICYMI, there is nothing like CounterSocial.
Our closest "competitor" is light years away.
Why?
Because we exist FOR you, and they exist to EXPLOIT you. #CoSoTips
☝️ There's a reason why we included a CoSoShare link.
It's everything you need to convince your people that we're the safest, and therefore the best.
Note: We aren't blowing smoke here. We're telling it like it is. Our Pro subscribers keep our servers online.
The other socials? They sell everything about you to stay online.
That's the difference. #CoSoTips
How would you feel if we told you that we listen to every conversation. Watch everything your phone camera can see. Record everything that you type into your phone's keyboard.
You'd feel angry. You'd feel betrayed.
You'd be pissed off.
And yet, that's exactly what you accepted when you installed every other social media application.
Don't believe us? Check out their "Privacy" Disclosures.
Don't have time? Don't worry.
We did it for you. #CoSoTips
"It's so weird that I'm suddenly seeing ads for that obscure thing I was talking about a few days ago."
It isn't weird. They're siphoning up everything about you. Talk about tangleless aviators, and you'll get targeted ads about tangleless aviators.
Because they can hear and watch you. In real time. Because you agreed to let them do that. When you established an account. #CoSoTips
Did somebody say "privacy disclosures?" #CoSoTips
@CoSoTips It's worth noting that those app permissions aren't limited to those apps.
In one way or another, the right half of that graphic is watching *everything* you do on your device. 😬
@kel
Great work on this, and thanks for adding Threads.
One thing worth noting about Mastodon is that your data privacy varies somewhat by the decisions of each instance admin. This screenshot tells you what the app itself does, but what happens on the backend could be a different story as far as your data privacy.
That may be a bit too nuanced for posting on Twitter, but maybe people here will understand it.
Horrifying that Truth Social is safer than Twitter or Meta Products.
Excuse me while I go vomit.
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Thank you!
@CoSoTips There should be a vast chasm of distance between us and Mastodon. #justsayin
@CoSoTips
I'm putting that on my blog. (I'm pretty sure it would get me kicked out if I posted it on Mastodon.)
@CoSoTips then why don't i get ads for Law rockets & tanks?
@CoSoTips But I just read an article in a tech magazine that takes lots of money in exchange for reviews, and the magazine said that was fake and even repeated the company's entire press release to prove it!
I tried posting the high-resolution version on 🐦 and this is what happens >>
A note on items flagged as misleading:
Some social media sites are declaring that they don't share data with third parties, but each has language in their ToS that allows third party disclosure.
Most declare that you can request deletion of your data, but none of them honor this request. They'll take your data off the public website, but it's always theirs.
We are the only social media site that takes your data privacy seriously. Your content isn't ours. It's yours. #CoSoTips