Instagram for ipad is finally out (after 15 years) but defaults to Reels so is more Tik Tok than insta

So instagram has released a full iPad app, but it default home is Reels, so it is trying to be Tik Tok, not instagram. Soto get to the old home, you have to hit the button below home to get to that. Now you can re-order that tab to get the default content you want to see, but you still have to switch off reels ever time you open instagram, which is beyond frustrating. If you as annoyed with this as me, consider leaving a low rating on the app, to get Facebook to change this.

The Conversation on Meta Charging European users to remove ads is a privacy red herring

https://youtu.be/W_yeCSb2tlk This article on it from the conversation is very interesting, as all Meta is doing is not showing you adds, they are still selling you data, which is insane. If only congress wasn't so corrupted by their "campaign contributions" from big business so that they actually made laws that protect their constituents, then we could have actual privacy, and actually have consumer protections.

9to5Mac on Felix Krause’s article on in app-browsers like those in Facebook and Instagram are a big privacy risk

Ben Lovejoy at 9to5Mac has this very interesting article on in-app browsers in Facebook and Instagram, where the companies insert javascript into the page and can literally see everything you do and type including passwords. It comes from this article by Felix Krause. Honestly the only thing I see that could help this if Apple put a stop to this. And honestly from a privacy perspective this should not be allowed by law, but congress is too technologically incompetent to ever understand something like this. And I like that the article includes code you can put into your web site to trick META into thinking it has already inserted it's code.