Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say
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Re: Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say
#2I will save you the long read. They paid people (incl teens) through third-parties (so that it's not easily traced to FB) to install kits on their phones to let them MITM Snapchat analytics traffic.
Re: Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say
#3After all these bombshells, I think Facebook is more dangerous than Tiktok....
Re: Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say
#4[dupe]
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39832952
Re: Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say
#5After all these bombshells, I think Facebook is more dangerous than Tiktok....
No you don't understand! When it's an American company doing it, its okay!
Re: Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say
#6How on earth does one App man in the middle another App’s traffic? This is a huge security vulnerability! If Facebook can install an App like this on iOS or Android, then other companies could do a similar thing.
Has this been fixed since?
Re: Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say
#7Wouldn't the private individual be arrested for hacking if they set up such a scheme?
Re: Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say
#8After all these bombshells, I think Facebook is more dangerous than Tiktok....
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Re: Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say
#9Imagine if the DOJ case against Apple prevails and rivals begin distributing their own iOS apps through alternate app stores and obtain unencumbered access to currently-private system APIs.
Re: Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say
#10Imagine if the DOJ case against Apple prevails and rivals begin distributing their own iOS apps through alternate app stores and obtain unencumbered access to currently-private system APIs.
Interesting thought. Perhaps the cat-and-mouse game of megacorps defending/expanding their turf through software/hardware boundaries isn't the best mechanism to achieve consumer protection.
If only there was something like consumer protection law. But you know, did consumer protection instead of waging proxy wars for megacorps to defend/expand their turf.