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The app store rules and review process are essentially the only thing that prevents Facebook from tracking you across all applications that use the Facebook SDK
by lacker 3y ago
The app store rules and review process are essentially the only thing that prevents Facebook from tracking you across all applications that use the Facebook SDK. It probably isn't possible to prevent tracking in a purely technical way. Even if two applications can't share data directly, they can each share fingerprinting information with a server, that allows Facebook to track you.
This sort of tracking can work even if you don't have a Facebook account, because so many different applications will include the Facebook SDK for ad tracking purposes.
Nothing specific to Facebook here, of course, it works the same way for any company with a large ad network.
- Moldoteck 3y agoSo if you don't install fb app from another place pr don't use fb at all, privacy will be preserved, gotcha
- Sweepi 3y agoWrong: Dont install any App which uses the Facebook SDK (1), which you have no (sensible) way of finding out, otherwise FB will track, combine, condense and analyze your data across multiple Apps without ever asking you. (1) or any other tracking SDK
- summm 3y agoExodus analyzes apps and shows the used SDKs: https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/ https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/
- nardi 3y agoThe fact that the data exists somewhere is small comfort if users cannot read the privacy implications in the app store itself when they're deciding whether to download an app.