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> But why the F... would my bank want to notify FB that I am using their app? It's not that they want to notify Facebook. It's that they get useful functionali
by badfrog 8y ago
> But why the F... would my bank want to notify FB that I am using their app?
It's not that they want to notify Facebook. It's that they get useful functionality from libraries that Facebook makes available. And they've either decided that sharing your info with Facebook is a worthwhile tradeoff for the engineering time, or they don't realize it's happening.
- wodenokoto 8y agoWhat services are you thinking of?
- badfrog 8y agoIf you click through to the original PI investigation [1], it says: > Facebook routinely tracks users, non-users and logged-out users outside its platform through Facebook Business Tools. App developers share data with Facebook through the Facebook Software Development Kit (SDK), a set of software development tools that help developers build apps for a specific operating system. I don't have more info than that [1] https://privacyinternational.org/appdata https://privacyinternational.org/appdata
- soared 8y agoFacebook has an /excellent/ cross-device graph that no has an alternative to. And its free.
- HenryBemis 8y agoI would like to know if the application owners/developers get some other compensation/$$$$ from the 'pings' they so freely give to my FB. I think I will write to my bank asking them and then ShowHN of the results/letters.
- chillacy 8y agoInstalling the pixel lets you better target your own ads. Similarly, google gets free pings from developers for "free" analytics, or "free" captcha.
- HenryBemis 8y agoIf my bank doesn't realize that their app is opening connections left, right and center, then we got a problem. The same applies to all airline companies that through their apps and my boarding passes have access to TOO much personal data.