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>There are plenty of alternatives to social media - email, SMS, phone calls, and even decentralized options. Someone didn't see the video[0] where the Facebook
by renholder 8y ago
>There are plenty of alternatives to social media - email, SMS, phone calls, and even decentralized options.
Someone didn't see the video[0] where the Facebook SDK, packaged into other apps, was sending all of the information plausible/possible back to Facebook - before the Terms and Conditions of the application could even be accepted.
The problem is far greater than you've perceived it to be.
[0] - https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9941-how_facebook_tracks_you_on_android/ https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9941-how_facebook_tracks_you_on_...
- sjroot 8y agoAny developer that uses the Facebook SDK has to agree to its terms and conditions. If you have an issue with this then you should avoid using applications that use the Facebook SDK. How is it a problem with Facebook when they have released this software free of charge for any developer to use? Again, just like the Facebook website, it is a product that they offer.
- renholder 8y agoDeveloper does not equal consumer. Just because the developer agrees to the terms and conditions of Facebook's SDK, it doesn't give Facebook carte blanche on the end-user's device - before the end-user has even agreed to the app's Terms & Conditions. Also, how in the feck do you propose avoiding using apps with the Facebook SDK included? It's not as if such use is advertised by the apps, yeah? From your argument, it's free, so why the feck should anyone complain? That's pretty banal: Trading subversive data practices for the cost of it being "free" should never have been an acceptable position for anyone to take, in the first place - no matter who it is.