iOS 13’s privacy pop-ups of Facebook data grabs • Hacker News Board

Re: iOS 13’s privacy pop-ups of Facebook data grabs

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Post by wildduck » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 11:44 AM UTC

snazz wrote: post #57

wildduck wrote: post #27

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https://m.facebookcorewwwi.onion Use facebook over tor. Also check out Richard Stallman's recommendation on using facebook for organizations: https://stallman.org/facebook-presence.html

RMS’s recommendations are actually surprisingly reasonable and a more nuanced take than I was expecting. I think it’s a pretty realistic thing for many organizations to do.

For sure. He is pretty reasonable guy. Just over a decade ago I have CS friends who make fun of him for his appearances. Now at least I think what he talked regarding Free/ Or at the very least Open Source software is prophetic for that time.

Re: iOS 13’s privacy pop-ups of Facebook data grabs

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Post by mrfusion » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 10:16 PM UTC

Someone1234 wrote: post #30

oflannabhra wrote: post #17

I've been using the iOS 13 developer beta for a couple months, and I can confirm that within the first week, several apps from the big 4 requested permissions for things that should be absolutely unnecessary. iOS 13 has several great privacy-focused changes: - WiFi SSID is protected behind location permissions (ie, an app must request and be granted location permissions to be able to access the current SSID) - Blueto…

Plus they added mouse support (on iPad). iOS 13 really is a great release. I just wish they allowed you to full hide the mouse cursor when the mouse isn't plugged in (the option that implies it does exactly that does not).

Mouse on an iPhone?

Re: iOS 13’s privacy pop-ups of Facebook data grabs

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Post by mrfusion » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 10:17 PM UTC

motohagiography wrote: post #9

This article sold me in switching to iPhone. It's like everything about Facebook dating seems like a eugenic program to favour people with a naive and submissive tendency toward power and authorities. As a technology change, online dating has become a "radical monopoly (Illich)," in the sense that whether you use it or not, you are subject to it, the way a cyclist is subject to the car, and any algorithmic bias or si…

> a eugenic program to favour people with a naive and submissive tendency toward power and authorities

Sounds like domestication.

Re: iOS 13’s privacy pop-ups of Facebook data grabs

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Post by Tepix » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 10:39 AM UTC

grecy wrote: post #26

guidopallemans wrote: post #21

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You can chat and browse on https://mbasic.facebook.com . It's html-only.

My old Andriod phone won't let me load that page. It force opens the Play Store and wants me to install messenger. So I can load Facebook through Chrome, but I can't chat to anyone.

Have you tried a different browser?

Re: iOS 13’s privacy pop-ups of Facebook data grabs

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Post by taneq » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 12:15 AM UTC

TheCapn wrote: post #38

mosselman wrote: post #25

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> In some of these, Apple is catching up to Android Where Android/Google itself is a bigger problem perhaps than the 3rd party apps.

What's funny is with Android 10 you get these prompts now too (can't say how comparative the two features are though). My biggest offender is Google's apps requesting location access in the background; Hangouts, Messenger, Phone, etc. all asking for access when I'm not using the app. Naturally I block them, but since they're all Google products I wonder how much that even matters.

One of the things that lead me to drop Gmail was the fact that the Gmail app on my phone started harassing me to turn location services back on. Why does it need to know my GPS coords to send an email?