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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Heads up. Facebook keylogs your passwords. (midwest.social)

submitted 10 months ago by Jezebelley3D@midwest.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] pedroapero@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The Facebook mobile webapp works just fine nowadays. Pretty sure it's even possible to enable notifications in most web browsers. I still don't get why people are willfully installing apps instead of just pinning web browser bookmarks.

[–] extant@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

No educational programs for smart phones?

[–] stalfoss@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I also only use the fb mobile web app, but for years they regularly break things, I assume it’s on purpose to get people to install their shady app