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How in the world can this be considered reasonable for them to track you across other apps and sites? This like if the local grocery store owner would install h
by qwerty456127 5y ago
How in the world can this be considered reasonable for them to track you across other apps and sites? This like if the local grocery store owner would install hidden cameras to spy on me at home and at work and in the car and one day somebody forced them to ask if I'm sure that's what I want them to do.
This all makes me start feeling like I might finally want an iPhone...
- kalleboo 5y agoYou're basically describing Apple's latest privacy ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w4qPUSG17Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w4qPUSG17Y
- csilverman 5y ago...and then, when finally prevented from doing so, they issued a quavery-voiced lament about how not being able to secretly film people without their consent will "hurt my ability to run my camsite efficiently and effectively."
- gruez 5y ago>This like if the local grocery store owner would install hidden cameras to spy on me at home and at work The more accurate analogy would be the grocery store owner teaming up with other local businesses to aggregate your shopping habits across stores into a central database. What you're describing would be if facebook installed a RAT on your computer after visiting it.
- sp332 5y agoExactly. All those other sites voluntarily send your data to Facebook. Edit: although they do track your physical location in real time through the app. That's more direct spying.
- gruez 5y ago>Edit: although they do track your physical location in real time through the app. That's more direct spying. But for that to happen you need to explicitly gave consent?
- sp332 5y agoIsn't it pre-installed on a lot of phones? https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/03/27/preinstalled-android-software-is-pilfering-your-data-say-researchers/ https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/03/27/preinstalled-and... and the paper mentioned is this PDF https://haystack.mobi/papers/preinstalledAndroidSW_preprint.pdf https://haystack.mobi/papers/preinstalledAndroidSW_preprint....
- qwerty456127 5y agoI'm not sure that always is really voluntary. Perhaps they don't have much choice. I don't know how can Facebook force them but e.g. with Google you have to use Google Analytics to score good in the search results AFAIK.
- pier25 5y ago> This all makes me start feeling like I might finally want an iPhone... Or maybe don't use Facebook on Android?
- JohnFen 5y agoFacebook isn't the only threat, by a longshot.
- mehlmao 5y agoFacebook is tracking users of other, non-Facebook apps. Apple's new feature allows users to deny Facebook that ability.
- pier25 5y ago> Facebook is tracking users of other, non-Facebook apps. For example?
- rchaud 5y agoAny app that uses Facebook SDK, of which there are thousands. Zoom only removed it in March 2020, after it was raised as a privacy issue. they are a massive, publicly traded company, and they were fine with keeping it in their codebase, until enough people complained.
- celestialcheese 5y agoAnyone who advertises with FB sticks the FB pixel SDK in their app to track conversions and performance of their FB ad spend. This pixel tracks a lot and reports back to FB. Most companies and apps advertise on FB.
- BLKNSLVR 5y agoOr maybe don't use Facebook at all? And block any and all Facebook DNS queries with a PiHole.
- zarkov99 5y ago