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> This all makes me start feeling like I might finally want an iPhone... Or maybe don't use Facebook on Android?
by 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 agoCan you actually use PiHole to serve DNS for your Android? I was able to direct my Linux systems to my PiHole but my Android phone seemed to not care a wit about my internal DNS.
- hansvm 5y agoYes, absolutely. A few apps (notably chrome) use secure dns by default, and given the state of that ecosystem they default to their own provider. You'll need to set up secure dns on your pihole and tell chrome to use that provider (or disable it in chrome).
- city41 5y agoI have secure dns on my pi hole, but on my Android phone I did nothing at all. Just use it as-is, and when I'm on my home wifi all ads get blocked.
- hansvm 5y agoIf I'm understanding their desired goal correctly they'd like to get that kind of DNS-level blocking everywhere, not just on their home wifi. I know I appreciate having those nuisances blocked remotely -- some apps don't even run with poor cell service for me without DNS-level blocking because of all the extra data they're trying to transfer.
- driverdan 5y agoYes. Set it as the DNS server to use in your router.
- Guest19023892 5y agoI setup a Pi-hole yesterday with two Android phones (manually setting the DNS on each device at the moment until I'm sure there are no issues and I want to set it at the router level for all devices on the network). Both phones worked as expected. One is a Pixel 4a with Chrome as the browser and I didn't experience any issues or have to do anything special during setup.