Of course they are. If you don't want to be tracked by Facebook, stop running their code on your device . Apple provides you with the app privacy labels in the App Store. Read them and use them.
Without the apps they will track you too, no worries.
Facebook and Snapchat iOS Apps Still Tracking Users Despite Opt-Out
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#22How are the apps still not removed?
Right, if Apple is serious about privacy they should give Facebook and Snapchat two weeks to comply and then just yank the apps. No extention, no exception, comply or your app is killed.
Clearly they're only serious about privacy until it could impact the bottom line. Despite the removals only helping users in the long run, removing two of their most popular apps (Snapchat is routinely #1 overall) would result in blowback towards Apple.
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#23Severe fines starting with 25% of gross and making them pay for mandatory audits, coupled with jail for executives would mitigate this.
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#24I've found switching to the web version of social apps to be better anyway. Stops me visiting them as frequently if nothing else. I'm actively deciding to visit now rather than mindlessly opening the apps in order Feelin kinda smug right now
No option to do that with Snapchat. So if you want to be involved with Snapchat in any way, the app is your only choice.
Honestly the only time I've seen Snapchat in the past 5 years someone was using it to buy cocaine
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#25How are the apps still not removed?
Apple fighting it on a technical level or playing tough in private negotiations is one thing, but do you truly expect Apple's customers would be pleased if Tim decides in their stead that Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat are off-limits? They have their own profit motives and you can be damn sure they will not hurt them in the name of a privacy crusade. Walling out small time apps with marginal use from your garden is…
They don't have to take down the apps, just refuse to publish updates with the privacy violating features. This puts the ball in Facebook's court.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right, if Apple is serious about privacy they should give Facebook and Snapchat two weeks to comply and then just yank the apps. No extention, no exception, comply or your app is killed.
Clearly they're only serious about privacy until it could impact the bottom line. Despite the removals only helping users in the long run, removing two of their most popular apps (Snapchat is routinely #1 overall) would result in blowback towards Apple.
Yep, but let us also remind our self how stupid that line of argumentation is. Apple needs to let at least Facebook track us, if they don’t Apple will lose millions of customers. Even if Apple truly want to be serious regarding privacy, the majority of their user base won’t let them.
Re: Facebook and Snapchat iOS Apps Still Tracking Users Despite Opt-Out
#28Severe fines starting with 25% of gross and making them pay for mandatory audits, coupled with jail for executives would mitigate this.
How much of FB revenue flows through the App Store though?
Are you suggesting the US government would levy a fine?
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#29Re: Facebook and Snapchat iOS Apps Still Tracking Users Despite Opt-Out
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple fighting it on a technical level or playing tough in private negotiations is one thing, but do you truly expect Apple's customers would be pleased if Tim decides in their stead that Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat are off-limits? They have their own profit motives and you can be damn sure they will not hurt them in the name of a privacy crusade. Walling out small time apps with marginal use from your garden is…
They don't have to take down the apps, just refuse to publish updates with the privacy violating features. This puts the ball in Facebook's court.
Exactly!
1. No updates released
2. No revenue released
3. An alert warning the user that the app is noncompliant and it’s use could result in data theft (ie think self-signed SSL in the browser)
4. Restrict all network activity from those apps to the first-party domain