Ethi helps you find out how Facebook tracks you across the internet, across the world, collects hundreds of interests about you and tracks your social life. Then we help you delete what you no longer want them to keep!
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Great idea! But as a user, it's a lose lose situation. Get your data stolen by FB and then have to PAY another platform to get it taken off. I understand that providing such tech and service has costs attached to it, but a monthly fee is just not fair to the users.
@hamed_safi Hey Hamed! I totally agree it isn't ideal, but for Ethi to work, we can't be a free service - that way we would have to monetise in some other way, and our incentives would be just as broken as Facebook's are - the advertisers are their real customers, while their users are just the product.
We don't want to have that model. We will look to offer more services for free as we become a more stable company and grow, but we want to always have our revenue come directly from the people we serve.
There's an 80% discount to try Ethi out for a month with the code MASTERHUNTER, so it's only £1, and there's a small free section where you can see how Facebook tracks you, but I hope you understand why we can't make everything free!
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A very interesting proposition. It's great that you are helping us be in a world that is more transparent about how our personal data is collected and used. It's definitively one of the biggest social issues at the moment. Great stuff!
@javier_mondragon_s Thanks Javier! We totally agree - people need transparency and a lot more control - there's only going to be more data collected about us! Appreciate the support a lot!
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Is this open source? If so, can you share the repo?
@gavid_dold Hey David - we're actually looking for advice at the moment for whether we should go open source, and if we do it, how to do so successfully. I'd love to jump on a call and hear your thoughts about pros/cons of doing it if you would be up for that?
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@gavid_dold@michaeljelly could potentially add more services / features faster to amplify the impact
@gavid_dold@michaeljelly Sure - happy to help. Want to DM?
I'm mostly concerned about how you hold a users data. You're asking a lot for us to put our entirely FB data into Ethi.
@gavid_dold@michaeljelly Yes please David! Hit me up on Twitter 😊
Totally agree - that's my main motivation for doing it. I think it's a really good way to build trust or even to not require trust.
@sadamiak Yes definitely! We've actually soft-launched some Google, Twitter and LinkedIn features today, and plan on doubling down on them over the next couple of weeks so that it's cross platform, and updates live based on how your Twitter data changes.
We want to be the hub from which you control your data universe 😊
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This is amazing. Does Facebook still save your data after you've deleted your account?
@iamuhammadtahir Facebook claims that it deletes all the content you've generated, like your photos, posts, and profile info, but deleting your account will not delete things that your friends have posted about you.
That's what an EFF researcher Gennie Gebhart said anyway. So it's not perfect, but they claim to delete most of it.
@jun_gong So glad you like it! Yes the name we're really happy about, short for Ethical! We want to build a fully human-centred company that helps users fight back against Facebook, Google and the other data omnivores 😊
@jun_gong@michaeljelly Just signed up on Ethi - you guys did a good job on the step-by-step guide 👍 Wondering if there's any plans on adding alternative sign in / authentication (something like https://docs.blockstack.org/auth...) So users will be able to control their data and account on Ethi? Just a thought :)
@jun_gong@michaeljelly One day! We would love to be a super-integrated and open platform, but that's all a lot of work and we decided to focus on our core use cases and validate demand before adding too many non-core but cool features like 3rd party auth!
@ravi_bajnath Thanks so much Ravi! Glad you like it. We'll be releasing more data sources over the next few weeks! Which ones would you like to see?
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@michaeljelly Twitter promoted ads (from the finance sector). I had to launch a dispute with my bank and started to see my timeline filled with mortgage and lending ads (including promoted, non-affiliated tweets promoting the bank). It was too coincidental.
@michaeljelly@ravi_bajnath We've got something for you!
It's under the "Targeting" tab. Would love your feedback and what we can make better about it!
We also have a really cool "Twitter Interactions" feature that's live in the "Socialising" section!
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