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How is the app overly intrusive? I doubt average the average facebook user feels that way
by evv 12y ago
How is the app overly intrusive?
I doubt average the average facebook user feels that way
- minimaxir 12y agoYou missed the outrage when Facebook forced users to switch to Messager: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/08/08/facebook-messenger-privacy-fears-heres-what-you-need-to-know/ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/08/08/facebook-messenger-pr...
- eli 12y agoGiven how important Facebook is to so many people (plus just the sheer size of its userbase) I literally do not think it is possible for them to make any changes whatsoever that do not provoke some sort of backlash. If they merged Messenger back into the main app there would certainly be an uproar over that as well.
- Ntrails 12y agoThat's not entirely true - they forced me to uninstall the app and just use the website on my mobile browser. Depressingly I am pretty sure it's a better UX than the app was - just without notifications.
- kazazes 12y agoWhile some of the more sensationalist parts of this were debunked, here [1] is the article that goes over a critical (non-technical) analysis of the binary itself. The app uses some private Apple APIs, including capturing the SSID of your wireless network. [1] http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/facebooks-messenger-app-is-tracking-a-lot-more-of-your-data-than-you-think http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/facebooks-messenger-a...
- eli 12y agoI thought Apple automatically scanned and rejected apps for private API usage
- mschuster91 12y agoMost likely FB will have an exception agreement with Apple. With their amounts of cash they can easily buy anything...
- teej 12y agoThey do. You can get around this with a little trickery, since they just scan for calls to specific method signatures.
- eli 12y agoI find it surprising that Apple puts up with blatant and conscious violations of their rules from such a high profile app.