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Looks like I jumped on the iPhone bandwagon just in time to cost facebook some money! (got my iphone ~1.5 yrs ago). What I don't get is why iphone needs to scan

Looks like I jumped on the iPhone bandwagon just in time to cost facebook some money! (got my iphone ~1.5 yrs ago). What I don't get is why iphone needs to scan your phone at all. I mean they literally have a treasure trove of information of most of their users, why do they need to sell that? Why don't they just act use the megatons of info they already have on you from scanning your page and your messages to other users? They should be rolling in ad revenue without needing to spy on data on phones.

slenk 5y ago
What about just not using Facebook...
- babypuncher 5y ago
  Before this change, Facebook could still track you in non-Facebook apps that use their software. Even if you are not a Facebook user.
  - slenk 5y ago
    This change actually eliminates/ed that? (never used iOS, unsure of how things are)
    - babypuncher 5y ago
      It made it considerably more difficult, because there is no legitimate user/device specific identifier that Facebook can use to track usage across different apps that use their SDK, unless the user opts in to IDFA, or logs in with their Facebook account in every app that uses it. This won't necessarily stop them from using other personally identifying information that you might share with multiple apps (phone number, email address, etc.) Sign In With Apple helps mitigate this to an extent.