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We're spoiled in the desktop browser by being able to clear history, cookies, local storage etc, or use a private browser session. There's also the importance of the "same origin policy". The Android platform API should simply never allow apps to obtain global system identifiers (serial numbers, "advertising IDs", MACs, Wifi network info, EMEIs etc) in the first place. Perhaps even going as far as not providing a sha…
It's been years since I banned Facebook apps from my phone. m.facebook.com for the casual check, and mbasic.facebook.com for an admittely crippled but functional access to read the seldom chat message. I'm happy that Fb Messenger is the tool of choice for 0,0% of people around here...
It's been years since I banned Facebook apps from my phone. m.facebook.com for the casual check, and mbasic.facebook.com for an admittely crippled but functional access to read the seldom chat message. I'm happy that Fb Messenger is the tool of choice for 0,0% of people around here...
If you watch the talk, that's not good enough. Any app you've installed that includes the FB SDK is leaking your data back to FB. And, according to the talk, that's a majority of popular apps.
This is not unique to Facebook and is true for almost all SDKs, which can track the same events (which this talks mentions), that the app has. Google tracks exactly the same events which FB does as well. Also, the same thing happens on iOS too - not sure why the talk avoided it. Once the app has the SDK for a third party (regardless of OS), tracking all events within the app is fair game.
Time for some hefty GDPR fines.
What are the names of these companies? I would love to send them all a GDPR request asking for my data.
You'll need to ask about their data processors I think.
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They are removing the ability to get any device identifiers in newer Android versions - unless you ask the user for a permission. https://developer.android.com/training/articles/user-data-id... There are advertising IDs and these can be reset. But I am not saying it's ideal in Android - up until recently you could easily fingerprint a device and you can do it today if you ask the users for permission (which the avera…
Most apps will just force you to accept it
Where are the torrent links? Anyway, There are more paid tracking SDKs in the wild and probably more invasive than Facebook's. For example, in Poland there is a service called Cluify which supposedly tracks millions of phones to then target ads at them. Although they're Google ads. In fact, they're a "proud partner of Google." On the website https://cluify.com/ they mention using wifi but in sales pitches they boast…
We're spoiled in the desktop browser by being able to clear history, cookies, local storage etc, or use a private browser session. There's also the importance of the "same origin policy". The Android platform API should simply never allow apps to obtain global system identifiers (serial numbers, "advertising IDs", MACs, Wifi network info, EMEIs etc) in the first place. Perhaps even going as far as not providing a sha…
> The Android platform API should simply never allow apps to obtain global system identifiers When the revenue stream of the creator of Android fundamentally depends on being able to tie devices to identity and behaviour, it's highly unlikely this is going to happen. They can't also keep it only for themselves and block for others or they'll get unfair trade practices action on their backs. Thr fact that Apple which…
Well put. I’ve tried to explain to people that I prefer Apple’s upfrontness that they are there to sell me a device and it’s software for money. Unlike Android systems where I feel the lead is intentionally buried by telling me how “free” the software is.
I use Netguard ( https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard ) and block out access to Facebook's Graph API by every app on my phone. Works very well.