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Don't mind me. I'm just going to come into your house and record what commercials you are watching. I'm not spyware I'm just _merely_ wanting to know about my marketing budget. Analogy may not be perfect but it takes serious mental gymnastics to fail to see this as spyware, in my opinion.
It wouldn't be surprising if some Smart TVs are already doing this.
"TV watches you", except this isn't Soviet Russia.
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I'm not really sure what the problem is here. You are perfectly free to not use Spotify, or any other app that chooses to utilize Facebook login or other components of the Facebook SDK. Spotify made their choice to use the SDK for whatever gains they get out of it, and as a customer you can choose to not use their service or app if you disagree with that. There's even comments in this HN thread that point you on how…
This is really just a variant of the "and yet you participate in society, hmmm" argument. At some point users are allowed to complain about shady behaviour done by huge corporations with resources they use to try to thrust their way into everyones lives.
I sometimes will load a website that uses React when really it's just a static content site. It just gets tiring, and doesn't add to the conversation, when every discussion about an article that could be HTML devolves into that. I get that other people feel that way, and in many ways I share their values... But it becomes its own sideshow and hijacks the otherwise interesting conversations, without adding anything new.
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>Devil's advocate: you could always not run those apps. Although for non-technical users it would be challenging to determine if the apps were transmitting that info, it's possible for technical users to detect it (assuming the info goes to an obviously-facebook url and isn't piped through e.g. spotify) But therein lies the rub: the overwhelming majority of users of software are not like you and me and have no idea w…
The resources are trivial. If you don't like it you don't have to use the app that you chose to install.
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It's difficult to argue about whether it's "surreptitious." It's certainly no secret. I think this is why you need organizations (perhaps government or otherwise) to establish standards for what is and isn't acceptable, so we don't have to quibble over words like "surreptitiously."
>It's difficult to argue about whether it's "surreptitious." It's certainly no secret. I think this is why you need organizations (perhaps government or otherwise) to establish standards for what is and isn't acceptable, so we don't have to quibble over words like "surreptitiously." It is a secret, though. Outside of you, me, and a few other folks like ourselves, users of this software have no idea what's going on be…
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Having a government full of technical lot illiterate politicians regulating digital advertisement - what could possibly go wrong.
>Having a government full of technical lot illiterate politicians regulating digital advertisement - what could possibly go wrong. I'm not sure that argument works. If we expand a bit, It wouldn't be difficult to find that governments are mostly comprised of illiterate politicians. There is no need for a government to be comprised of digital advertisement industry specialists in order to pass meaningful industry regu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...
And a few where we dodged a billet.
For those wondering why the Facebook SDK is so widely used in popular mobile apps: Facebook Login is actually in the minority of reasons to add the Facebook SDK to your mobile app. The vast majority of apps will add the Facebook SDK because it contains Facebook App Ads; a library that "completes the circle" in terms of finding out how effectively the ads you ran on Facebook were at getting people to download, install…
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>Is that "spyware"? Yes, absolutely. It uses energy and bandwidth I paid for to surreptitiously transmit my information for use which will solely benefit Facebook and the software developer.
If the software developer didn't get anything off you they wouldn't make the software available to you in the first place.
1. Airplane mode 2. Block facebook.com as adult content under Settings | Screen Time | Content Restrictions | Web Content | Limit Adult Websites | Add a site. 3. Block facebook.com at your router.
Option 2 could be helpful if you want to block it for privacy reasons.