@Techmeme@techhub.socialSnapchat turns off Solar System, which lets users see their position in their friends' orbits, by default, after a report said it was adding to teens' anxiety (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/05/snap
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSnapchat announces the ability to edit messages for up to five minutes after sending them, rolling out "soon" and available first for Snapchat subscribers (Umar Shakir/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/1/24146618…
@drahardja@sfba.socialMore #xenophobia and anti-#chinese #racebaiting. TikTok isn’t doing anything more egregious than what Meta, X, Snapchat, or any number of popular social media platforms are doing. If these committee members …
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@jackie@social.linux.pizzahey guys I just got a snapchat from the antichrist and he said the world is really gonna end this time
also he apologizes for failing to end the world all those other times despite all the doomsday preppers counting on him
#eclipse
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSnapchat announces the ability to edit messages for up to five minutes after sending them, rolling out "soon" and available first for Snapchat subscribers (Umar Shakir/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/1/24146618…
@MediaActivist@todon.euProject Ghostbusters: Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat #Meta
@spamless@mastodon.socialFacebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/?guccounter=1
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialFacebook bought a VPN company. You'll never guess what they did next!
Competitors hate this one weird trick for spying on encrypted data!
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/
@oligneisti@social.linux.pizzaI literally don't understand #Snapchat. I occasionally open the app to see if friends have posted but always end up seeing some nonsense. The user interface is just awful. I might be able to figure it out but I just get annoyed. I also just hate the algorithm.
@MediaActivist@todon.euProject Ghostbusters: Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat #Meta
@spamless@mastodon.socialFacebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/?guccounter=1
@kennysmith@mstdn.socialI’ve been following the Social Media Sameness Singularity since 2016.
It’s sometimes also corporate espionage!
From: @…
https://mastodon.social/@arstechni…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFilings detail Meta's Project Ghostbusters to get data analytics about Snapchat, YouTube, and Amazon, using Onavo VPN on iOS and Android between 2016 and 2019 (Maxwell Zeff/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/project-ghostbusters-facebook-meta-wiret…
@ben@a11y.infoOf all the baffling GenAI decisions out there, I am maybe most baffled by Snapchat's “My AI” chatbot.
• Takes up space at the top of my chat list, above friends I've chatted with within the past few days, despite the fact I haven't engaged with the bot in the near year it's been out
• Can only be hidden/removed if you pay for Snapchat's premium membership
Who is this for? Who's going to a social platform to talk with a chatbot? Is the platform so emp…
@matematico314@social.linux.pizza#LB Essas gigantes da tecnologia são pura bandidagem!
https://mastodon.social/@tecnoblog/112168605003824138
@drahardja@sfba.socialIn 2014, Apple made a #WWDC video featuring Larry David and JB Smoove (and Evan Spiegel of Snapchat) that was never publicly shown. In this short, Larry David plays the part of the Apple App Approver that somewhat capriciously approves or denies apps that were submitted to the app store.
Someone uploaded the video to YouTube. You can watch it here.
@jae@mastodon.me.ukI do not miss Facebook or Instagram at all.
I don’t miss Bluesky (never was on it, if they won’t federate with ActivityPub it isn’t worth my time).
I don’t miss X. I don’t miss Snapchat. I don’t miss TikTok.
This last two weeks I also terminated Nextdoor and Telegram. (Fun fact, Telegram just announced they are monetizing content using the blockchain).
To be fair I’m still on YouTube, but you have to pick your battles.
Goodbye and good riddance to these platform…
@beaware@social.beaware.liveObviously Snapchat.
@tbones@social.tchncs.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialSome teens say a Snapchat feature that lets users see their position in their friends' digital orbits, rendered as a solar system, is adding to their anxieties (Julie Jargon/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.co…
@twcau@mastodon.socialThis people – this is why a good portion of the #fediverse wants to completely #defederate and block anything associated with Facebook.
They simply cannot be trusted to respect user privacy.
@dsc@mastodon.scotOh this has to feature in a @… thread, surely :)
Meta needs competitive data
Meta mods VPN to sniff traffic
Wow.
https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/11
@esoriano@social.linux.pizzaParece que Facebook hizo MITM a TLS usando un derivado de Squid en sus servidores (!!!) para descifrar tršfico de otras compañías (snapchat, google y amazon), desde 2016 a 2019.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24520332-merged-fb
@ben@a11y.infoOf all the baffling GenAI decisions out there, I am maybe most baffled by Snapchat's “My AI” chatbot.
• Takes up space at the top of my chat list, above friends I've chatted with within the past few days, despite the fact I haven't engaged with the bot in the near year it's been out
• Can only be hidden/removed if you pay for Snapchat's premium membership
Who is this for? Who's going to a social platform to talk with a chatbot? Is the platform so emp…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSnapchat is testing Infinite Retention Mode, which lets users save their DMs indefinitely, bringing it closer to a pure-play messaging app like iMessage (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/14/snapchat-messages-disappear-save-imess…
@ben@a11y.infohey did anything ever come of those snapchat glasses
@josemurilo@mato.socialAlém da Meta, a ação "também inclui o YouTube, o Snapchat, e o TikTok, e alega que as empresas projetaram intencionalmente suas plataformas para "manipular e viciar crianças e adolescentes em aplicativos de mídia social".
A Meta, o TikTok e o YouTube jš enfrentam centenas de processos movidos em nome de crianças e distritos escolares."
@twcau@mastodon.social#NewLevelsOfDumbness - Graffiti taggers who vandalise trains, that obviously and intentionally include their Instagram and Snapchat usernames in said vandalism.
I’d take a photo of this stupidity if the train wasn’t packed like sardines right now.
#PublicTransport
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSnap plans to add watermarks to AI-generated images on Snapchat; watermarks appear as a translucent version of the Snap logo with a sparkle emoji (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/17/snap-plans-to-add…
