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I wonder why meta chose not do the whole localhost thing on iOS. I guess their engineers aren’t creative enough. The defaults aren’t really relevant because th

• mindcrash 10mo ago
  iOS apps can not create a network connection without explicit consent from the user. And given all the privacy breaches Meta's engineers did manage to succesfully execute on iOS until now, given the sandbox restrictions, they are in fact pretty creative if you ask me. Don't believe for a second you are safe from these fuckers on either Android or iOS.
• lern_too_spel 10mo ago
  > I wonder why meta chose not do the whole localhost thing on iOS Presumably, they have a simpler way to tie the same ids together on iOS. > The defaults aren’t really relevant because they don’t come up If you ask your phone to navigate for you, you cannot use another app with better privacy. You have to use whatever Apple forces on you. The same with hotword-triggered assistants. But yes, these are minor compared to the fact that you cannot get your GPS location at all in any app without telling Apple or the fact that you cannot install an app at all without telling Apple. These are egregious privacy violations done simply because Apple can.