Social Media Privacy Ranking 2024

Key insights

  • Our researchers found that Reddit, with a score of 8.9, represented the lowest privacy risk, followed by Snapchat (9.99) and Pinterest (10.49).
  • Facebook, with a score of 18.98, Facebook Messenger (16.51), and Instagram (15.84), were found to present the greatest risk to users’ privacy.
  • Instagram and Facebook were found to have the most problematic data collection and retention practices.
  • Instagram, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, YouTube, and Discord keep users’ data the longest after a successful account deletion request.
  • LinkedIn and X (Twitter) publicly display the most user data with the strictest “visibility” settings selected.
  • Facebook had the highest number of GDPR, CCPA, and similar regulatory violations, while LinkedIn suffered the greatest number of data breaches and mass data scrapes.
This is a list of Social 'THIEF' Media.
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Rightly said.
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Funny list! Are they private anyhow?
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No, they are not private but they will promise you.
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Some more, some less, but at the end of the day we have no privacy!!!!
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Yes, all of these are crap.
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 16 Oct
lol reddit being the most private kind of shows how far privacy has fallen. They don't even let folks use a VPN.
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People who use any of them are blind, deaf and dumb on privacy.
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And where is SN on that list? 🤔 How private is SN?? 🤠🥷 @k00b
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I can think of a few apps they missed.
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These are top 10 by them. We can make our own list. Please tell yours and I'll tell you mine.
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I only use stacker news and amethyst.
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I only use Stacker news and I'll be on nostr very soon but I've oaid homage to all of them in last 6 months.
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Nice. That's interesting. I assumed everyone on stacker came from nostr first. I don't know why I thought that.
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Thanks to SN otherwise I would never distinguish.
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I was thinking about all the great nostr apps and stacker news off course.
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For Nostr apps and SN, we can't include with this list.
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Because they are private?
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No. But they promise so and people fall a prey.
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Of course Reddit is at the top
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