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It's been years since I banned Facebook apps from my phone. m.facebook.com for the casual check, and mbasic.facebook.com for an admittely crippled but function
by j1elo 8y ago
It's been years since I banned Facebook apps from my phone.
m.facebook.com for the casual check, and mbasic.facebook.com for an admittely crippled but functional access to read the seldom chat message.
I'm happy that Fb Messenger is the tool of choice for 0,0% of people around here...
- javajosh 8y agoIf you watch the talk, that's not good enough. Any app you've installed that includes the FB SDK is leaking your data back to FB. And, according to the talk, that's a majority of popular apps.
- zozbot123 8y agoF-Droid apps aren't going to include proprietary SDKs. Yet another reason to use F-Droid (on Android/AOSP).
- jklinger410 8y agoTracking may be reduced, but being in F-Droid doesn't really mean anything. Take this on a per-case basis. You would need to check the traffic of each app that you use.
- bubblethink 8y agoBeing on official f-droid categorically means no proprietary sdks. The app could still make calls to random servers, but that would be in the open since the app needs to be open source.
- vageli 8y agoIs that true? F-Droid usually lists apps that I "won't like" because they include non-free software.
- bubblethink 8y agoF-droid doesn't have non-free software. F-droid flags some apps with anti-features for various reasons like non-free network services (https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Category:Apps_with_NonFreeNet_antifeature https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Category:Apps_with_NonFreeNet_...), which is quite useless honestly since it makes no difference even if a remote service is free since you don't control that end. Perhaps historically f-droid allowed non-free dependencies (https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/AntiFeatures https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/AntiFeatures), but I don't think that's a thing any more. I don't see any major apps in that category.
- vageli 8y agoAh, admittedly it has been some time since I've tried to run a completely free Android device so I may have been mistaken.
- jklinger410 8y agoOkay but "proprietary sdks" are not the only thing that tracks you in an app.
- javajosh 8y agoThe only real way to avoid stuff like this is to install something like little snitch for phones.
- j1elo 8y agoI started but didn't have time to watch it all. But yes, I got to the idea you mention. A disgusting state of affairs...