Comment by kube-system
15 hours ago
I think it's their employees here that have cause to be concerned, not internet users.
Meta already has literally have billions of people's personal profiles and browsing history.
I don't think screenshots of their SWE's IDEs is going to be useful for identifying internet users.
They could perfect it in house and then roll it out as a product. The way people type and use a mouse are pretty identifying especially when coupled with other things.
I do agree screenshots themselves are less useful for that.
That doesn't make any sense.
1. Why use their employee's data to fingerprint input? They could do that to a billion+ of their users instead.
2. Input fingerprinting is multi-decades old science, there are already production products that do this.
Are there products that do this with all of the other metadata that meta now collects? At the scale that meta collects them? My guess is no.
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