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App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m

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Re: App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m

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Post by dirkf »

riyadparvez wrote: post #88
jgeada wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use an app called AdBlock https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id691121579?pt=425087... It creates a local VPN that sets up a local filtering DNS. I just added the following domains to the block list: facebook.com fbcdn.com fbcdn.net fbsbx.com fb.com

That's very interesting. Does Android have anything similar?

I use https://blokada.org/index.html on Android.

But you have to keep an eye on it because it can get killed when Android(?) thinks it needs the resources for something else. The app has some options to help prevent this but it doesn't always seem to work.

Re: App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m

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Post by musha68k »

beagle3 wrote: post #64

Waze, a google owned app for the past 4 years, crashes because of the FB app. WhatsApp, a Facebook owned app, will not give you read access to your own chat database - it’s encrypted. But they have an arrangement with Google where it’s will back up unencrypted to your Google account (though, Google won’t let you retrieve it ... only the WhatsApp app can) Everything about this duopoly, their cooperation and lack of co…

Yes, it's definitely time for some slightly enhanced armchair activism!

Convert all active whatsapp contacts to signal? 80%? 50%?

Same for Facebook messenger!

It needs to be uncomfortable enough - if they want to communicate with us and are minimally tech savvy ("click link to install app") they have to switch to signal.

That's it.

I'm starting to send out messages over my morning coffee.

Let's do this together:

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007060592-In...

Re: App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m

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Post by wolco »

bsenftner wrote: post #102
akmarinov wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not only could it do that, but it also totally does do that

The fact that we as in industry and we as citizens of free nations do not end these operations, terminate their corporate charters and throw the responsible in jail is indicator #1 that freedom (not the GOP free-dumb) as we know it is in it's death rattle.

Why are people using the facebook sdk? What does it give them?

Re: App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m

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Post by heavenlyblue »

cerberusss wrote: post #81
beagle3 wrote: post #64

Waze, a google owned app for the past 4 years, crashes because of the FB app. WhatsApp, a Facebook owned app, will not give you read access to your own chat database - it’s encrypted. But they have an arrangement with Google where it’s will back up unencrypted to your Google account (though, Google won’t let you retrieve it ... only the WhatsApp app can) Everything about this duopoly, their cooperation and lack of co…

Also, you can't migrate WhatsApp between iPhone and Android. There's a utility called BackupTrans, which follows an extremely convoluted process including a step where they install an old version of WhatsApp. It seemed to work but it trips some wire and WhatsApp put me in an hour-long timeout state, twice. Since I very much depend on WhatsApp, I dare not use it anymore.

You can still download the history as a text file though - I did that.

Re: App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m

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Post by skocznymroczny »

AlexandrB wrote: post #78
beagle3 wrote: post #64

Waze, a google owned app for the past 4 years, crashes because of the FB app. WhatsApp, a Facebook owned app, will not give you read access to your own chat database - it’s encrypted. But they have an arrangement with Google where it’s will back up unencrypted to your Google account (though, Google won’t let you retrieve it ... only the WhatsApp app can) Everything about this duopoly, their cooperation and lack of co…

> WhatsApp, a Facebook owned app, will not give you read access to your own chat database - it’s encrypted. On android? On iOS you can get a tarball of all your chats.

On android you can select "export chats", select contacts and then send it to where you want it.

Re: App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m

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Post by kzrdude »

pi-err wrote: post #27

I use a non-Facebook login on Spotify and the app crashes right there. How is this even possible, even less acceptable from Spotify point of view?

This should hopefully be the end of facebook integration in Spotify

Re: App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m

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Post by s_dev »

scottmf wrote: post #57

Seems to me like Apple needs to intervene here. Even ignoring the privacy concerns, this is unjustifiable.

Current position of Apple is if you're going to include the FBSDK Sign-In you have to include the Apple Sign-In button too. Removing FBSDK is also acceptable to Apple.

So Apple have put out an incentive to their third party Devs while still giving some freedom.

Re: App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m

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Post by adamparsons »

My personal anecdote: I’m parked over on the side of the road because my carplay habits of Spotify and Waze both kept crashing to the dashboard.

I couldn’t help but notice neither app worked even after a reboot, yet google maps did. I was thinking there was a carplay bug and then thought: “oh boy here we go, what are the odds, let’s check hackernews” and bam, of course it’s the Facebook sdk again

I’m thankful that googles iOS-chrome and google maps doesn’t use the Facebook sdk for something...

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