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How does the Facebook SDK in a 3rd party app correlate that you're the same user if you don't log into the app with FB? Is there some universal device identifier all your apps have access to?
There's an "advertising id" that's assigned to your phone, accessible by apps you install. This ID can be reset by the user, but only if they are aware of it.
Seems to be some suggestions now that apps were continuing to crash even after commenting out the FB implementation because FB is managing to do remote API calls just because the framework is linked. https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1373#iss... > It does not matter. Their libraries are dynamic, and they abuse +load functions for classes with some business logic calls. So, +load will be called anywa…
I'm shocked but perhaps not surprised at many of the comments in that thread. These people are app developers who voluntarily link in huge multimegabyte binary-only third party sdks, and then act surprised that the code they are linking is prone to crashing? It should be obvious that any bug in such an SDK might bring down any app, even on launch and even if your own code never makes an explicit call to the SDK. Thir…
Seems to be some suggestions now that apps were continuing to crash even after commenting out the FB implementation because FB is managing to do remote API calls just because the framework is linked. https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1373#iss... > It does not matter. Their libraries are dynamic, and they abuse +load functions for classes with some business logic calls. So, +load will be called anywa…
Seems to be some suggestions now that apps were continuing to crash even after commenting out the FB implementation because FB is managing to do remote API calls just because the framework is linked. https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1373#iss... > It does not matter. Their libraries are dynamic, and they abuse +load functions for classes with some business logic calls. So, +load will be called anywa…
(For the iOS engineers reading along: please don't put network calls in +load, or __attribute__((constructor)), or a C++ static variable, or whatever other clever way you think you can get code execution before main.)
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Wait, are you saying that (software) engineers should _actually_ be authoritarian? And you suggest this is because otherwise "authoritarian tactics" wouldn't work?
No, I did not say that. I am not even talking about what they should or shouldn't be. There's no set rule which says engineers are supposed to be pro-authoritarians or anti-authoritarians. I was disagreeing with what the parent said: "Engineers are supposed to be anti-authoritarians." I take that to mean that the person thinks engineers are anti-authoritarians - which is simply false and not what happens in real life…
I agree that what engineers _should_ be is different from engineers _actually_ are, and that today you see how software is definitely enabling authoritarian rule. I wish it wasn't so, and I guess that's what OP wanted to communicate.
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A consulting company or a company that makes "white label" apps like for restaurants or stores.
Can we agree that each restaurant having a separate app is one of the dumbest outcomes imaginable?
Seems to be some suggestions now that apps were continuing to crash even after commenting out the FB implementation because FB is managing to do remote API calls just because the framework is linked. https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1373#iss... > It does not matter. Their libraries are dynamic, and they abuse +load functions for classes with some business logic calls. So, +load will be called anywa…
The Facebook SDK does make some calls on init. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app-events/gdpr-complia... From them: "The Facebook SDK automatically initializes when the app is opened. When the SDK is initializing, it fetches app settings from Facebook. If you want to block all network requests to Facebook, you can disable automatic initialization." If you want to turn it off, you're supposed to set in your app'…
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It wouldn't be surprising if some Smart TVs are already doing this.
We are already living in the world of 1984. "TV watches you ", except this isn't Soviet Russia.
In the most of the important ways; no.
You can still fight back effectively. Don't go gentle into that good night.