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On your smartphone, every other app will have Facebook SDK, whether for login or tracking or anything else at all.

Zenst 4y ago
Indeed, certainly makes application proxy filtering more of a must than a luxury for the wider consumer market in todays times. Though not sure (beyond rolling your own) what offerings are out there for consumers as focus seems to be VPN proxies.
- Nextgrid 4y ago
  On iOS, "Lockdown Privacy" is a potential option.
Nextgrid 4y ago
Yep, so much for the GDPR. Despite this, I'm sure someone is going to throw the "enforcementtracker.com" link to "prove" that enforcement is sufficient.
scns 4y ago
On Android you can block trackers per app with TrackerControl. https://trackercontrol.org/ https://trackercontrol.org/
- pmontra 4y ago
  I've been using Blockada for many years. I think it does the same thing with trackers, ads, etc.
ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
Not on the ones I write, but I know that I'm an outlier. From what I have heard, the FB SDK has a bunch of nice UI candy, so folks may have used it, just so they can get the nice splitscreen, etc. (UISplitViewController is a nightmare. I suspect that SwiftUI may have some improvements to offer).
coldcode 4y ago
When I start as a mobile lead at GiantNonTechCorpYouWouldKnow, I was looking at one of the two apps I would be leading part of, just to get familiar I looked at all network connections it made and found it called Facebook. I asked product team why we pinged FB given the app it just for our business; they had no idea we even did that, and it was immediately ordered the FB SDK be removed from the app. I never did discover why it was there in the first place.
pdimitar 4y ago
Hence: Pi-Hole at home, and a on-device VPN that blocks 98% of all that crap. I am sure they can still get some info and that some requests slip through but I wish them luck building a coherent picture of me by a few scraps of random info.

Indeed, certainly makes application proxy filtering more of a must than a luxury for the wider consumer market in todays times. Though not sure (beyond rolling your own) what offerings are out there for consumers as focus seems to be VPN proxies.

Nextgrid 4y ago
On iOS, "Lockdown Privacy" is a potential option.

Nextgrid 4y ago

Yep, so much for the GDPR. Despite this, I'm sure someone is going to throw the "enforcementtracker.com" link to "prove" that enforcement is sufficient.

scns 4y ago

On Android you can block trackers per app with TrackerControl. https://trackercontrol.org/ https://trackercontrol.org/

pmontra 4y ago
I've been using Blockada for many years. I think it does the same thing with trackers, ads, etc.

ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago

Not on the ones I write, but I know that I'm an outlier. From what I have heard, the FB SDK has a bunch of nice UI candy, so folks may have used it, just so they can get the nice splitscreen, etc. (UISplitViewController is a nightmare. I suspect that SwiftUI may have some improvements to offer).

coldcode 4y ago

When I start as a mobile lead at GiantNonTechCorpYouWouldKnow, I was looking at one of the two apps I would be leading part of, just to get familiar I looked at all network connections it made and found it called Facebook. I asked product team why we pinged FB given the app it just for our business; they had no idea we even did that, and it was immediately ordered the FB SDK be removed from the app. I never did discover why it was there in the first place.

pdimitar 4y ago

Hence: Pi-Hole at home, and a on-device VPN that blocks 98% of all that crap. I am sure they can still get some info and that some requests slip through but I wish them luck building a coherent picture of me by a few scraps of random info.