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When did Zoom sell their users to investors and advertisers? Zoom used the Facebook SDK to provide a social login button. When they discovered that the SDK sen
by ilikehurdles 7y ago
When did Zoom sell their users to investors and advertisers?
Zoom used the Facebook SDK to provide a social login button. When they discovered that the SDK sends device data over to Facebook even when users are not utilizing the feature, they removed the SDK and reimplemented it using the native browser. Almost every app on your phone that has a Facebook login option has this same privacy leak. Facebook deserves more of the negative focus here for not explicitly stating to developers that they're bundling spyware on their apps.
Every negative coverage of Zoom that I can think of has shown that its flaws were the result of its focus on streamlined/dead-simple user experience rather than any kind of advertising or selling of user data. Meanwhile people suggest alternatives from Google and Microsoft. After Facebook, I can't think of two companies that have a worse track record on privacy than those two targeted advertising companies.
- thinkharderdev 7y agoPart of the hate for Zoom is from the bad reputation they have among security people from "local-webserver-gate," which (to me at least) really was an egregiously bad thing to do even if the intention was just to make the user experience more seamless.