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Wait, what?

swiley 5y ago
Sorry, I'm not sure what part of that wasn't clear. Facebook ships useful libraries to app developers as binaries and they use that to get code on everyone's phone in order to add to their data collection apparatus. I'm pretty sure they're not the only ones who do that either. It's a pretty effective method to get around app sandboxes.
- NationalPark 5y ago
  Which libraries in particular report ad/identity telemetry to Facebook?
  - vlovich123 5y ago
    https://github.com/facebook/facebook-android-sdk/ https://github.com/facebook/facebook-android-sdk/
- kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
  My stock camera app pings FB on startup because of this. Fortunately it can be blocked on Android.
  - dannyw 5y ago
    How do I block this on Android?
    - StavrosK 5y ago
      You can do things that range from cutting off data access to the app to installing Blokada and cutting off access via DNS.
      - kawera 5y ago
        NetGuard is another option for DNS filtering.
    - mcraiha 5y ago
      AFAIK in vanilla Android you have to use VPN if you want to block access to certain domain for all the apps.
    - kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
      NoRoot Firewall
- haswell 5y ago
  As someone who does not build mobile apps, none of that was clear from the earlier comment. I appreciate the additional explanation - I wonder if there's a way to find out which apps include this so I can avoid them...
  - swiley 5y ago
    You should probably avoid any closed source software that isn't community maintained just like on the desktop. Unfortunately Apple and Google work extremely hard to make this somewhere between difficult and impossible.
- na85 5y ago
  That's fucking infuriating.
- FearlessNebula 5y ago
  How can 3rd party developers make API calls to a binary?
  - swiley 5y ago
    https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFrameworks/Concepts/WhatAreFrameworks.html https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ma... I haven't touched iOS development in years but I believe you don't even need a dev account to publish these.
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Wait, what?

Sorry, I'm not sure what part of that wasn't clear. Facebook ships useful libraries to app developers as binaries and they use that to get code on everyone's phone in order to add to their data collection apparatus. I'm pretty sure they're not the only ones who do that either. It's a pretty effective method to get around app sandboxes.

NationalPark 5y ago
Which libraries in particular report ad/identity telemetry to Facebook?
- vlovich123 5y ago
  https://github.com/facebook/facebook-android-sdk/ https://github.com/facebook/facebook-android-sdk/
kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
My stock camera app pings FB on startup because of this. Fortunately it can be blocked on Android.
- dannyw 5y ago
  How do I block this on Android?
  - StavrosK 5y ago
    You can do things that range from cutting off data access to the app to installing Blokada and cutting off access via DNS.
    - kawera 5y ago
      NetGuard is another option for DNS filtering.
  - mcraiha 5y ago
    AFAIK in vanilla Android you have to use VPN if you want to block access to certain domain for all the apps.
  - kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
    NoRoot Firewall
haswell 5y ago
As someone who does not build mobile apps, none of that was clear from the earlier comment. I appreciate the additional explanation - I wonder if there's a way to find out which apps include this so I can avoid them...
- swiley 5y ago
  You should probably avoid any closed source software that isn't community maintained just like on the desktop. Unfortunately Apple and Google work extremely hard to make this somewhere between difficult and impossible.
na85 5y ago
That's fucking infuriating.
FearlessNebula 5y ago
How can 3rd party developers make API calls to a binary?
- swiley 5y ago
  https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFrameworks/Concepts/WhatAreFrameworks.html https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ma... I haven't touched iOS development in years but I believe you don't even need a dev account to publish these.

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