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bix6 • today at 5:28 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Meta ripping your entire personal library to slam you with manipulative ads? Doesn’t sound benign to me.


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snakeboy • today at 5:31 PM

Yeah, I think normal people will accept the app permission to their gallery in order to send a photo. It seems reasonable to be able to opt-in to this very basic functionality of a messaging app without also implicitly consenting to FB training ML models on your entire library.

r_lee • today at 5:38 PM

sounds like actual malware behavior