Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning

Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by forgotmypw17 on Sunday February 28, 2021 @04:14AM (#26291885)

>I don’t know any one outside some geeky sites and only one person personally who cares about any of this. Some do say lame casually. But it’s not going to be a deciding factor for using the app.

My experience is completely different from yours. Out of the dozens of people I've spoken with about this stuff, I can't remember a SINGLE PERSON who didn't express dissatisfaction with at least one of: lack of privacy and potential willy-nilly snooping by CompanyX employee; arbitrary blocking and post removal without good cause; bad interface design; low quality of content.

I don't go fishing for it either, it just happens in conversation, although I sometimes am the first to broach the subject of social networks.

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Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by skinnymuch on Sunday February 28, 2021 @08:48AM (#26293383)

Sorry, I was exaggerating and didn't make it clear what I meant. Yes people care. A lot of people will especially say something or another. Most won't actually not connect to Clubhouse with their contacts though.

So I see the same dissatisfaction. I find that to be closer to slacktivism level of caring for most people though. If they stop using an app or don't use it from the get go for X reason, it usually doesn't align with how they're using other apps. So technically they did not use something because of the dissatisfaction you described. However, they aren't actually applying that even remotely consistently.

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Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by forgotmypw17 on Sunday February 28, 2021 @09:02AM (#26293473)

I think it is just habit and culture, and both can change very quickly. There are many examples throughout history, e.g. civil rights movement.

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