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I am fortunate to have been able to delete Facebook and Instagram from my phone but being in Europe I have to use WhatsApp.
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Unfortunately it's not that simple for everyone. I personally would lose contact with a lot of people if I delete Messenger or Whatsapp. On all my contacts, I have two on Signal, zero on Matrix.
People used to send emails.
A user can disable geo-tagging or the better(?) disable precise location in Settings.app > Privacy > Camera. Like mentioned in the article, there a lot of EXIF strips in Appstore too but I’m not sure if a regular user would take the road of take photo > go to exif stripper > delete exif on photo > save the photo > go to facebook > upload to facebook
Settings.app —> Privacy —> Location services —> Camera
and turning off the “precise location” option for the Camera app that way.
It would be ideal if there were an “EXIF data” toggle in the Camera section that could allow sharing pictures with apps but with all metadata removed.
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Is Facebook messenger not available in the browser?
Not really. Have you tried it? It doesn't really work. I can't even figure out how to use it from my mobile device without installing an app.
I believe that's deliberate. The mobile web version of Facebook used to support personal messaging. In 2016 they removed it in an effort to push people onto the app.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/03/facebook-is-disabling-mess...
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Not really. Have you tried it? It doesn't really work. I can't even figure out how to use it from my mobile device without installing an app.
That's weird... I have tried it (I use it a lot on PC) and it works just fine. It even has some extra features, like LaTeX support. I guess you mean it doesn't work on mobile browsers? (Never tried that)
A user can disable geo-tagging or the better(?) disable precise location in Settings.app > Privacy > Camera. Like mentioned in the article, there a lot of EXIF strips in Appstore too but I’m not sure if a regular user would take the road of take photo > go to exif stripper > delete exif on photo > save the photo > go to facebook > upload to facebook
Or just delete Facebook apps.
In some countries, you can't perform essential tasks such as booking a doctor's appointment without Whatsapp. It's not that simple.
my proposal is more radical. rally to ban FB in that country. incentivize local companies to come up with alternative solutions.
zuck and his comrades have no business poking their noses into foreigners medical data anyway. it would also avoid less taxes being lost on facebooks Double Irish tax evasion. treat them like the cancer they are. don't celebrate FB engineers and call them out for the useful idiots they are.
A user can disable geo-tagging or the better(?) disable precise location in Settings.app > Privacy > Camera. Like mentioned in the article, there a lot of EXIF strips in Appstore too but I’m not sure if a regular user would take the road of take photo > go to exif stripper > delete exif on photo > save the photo > go to facebook > upload to facebook
I think the better option is:
(1) Make it obvious when location data is being included with a photograph, and exclude it by default - especially if the app doesn't already have Precise Location access.
(2) Apps that manage your entire photo library and all its EXIF data (think Amazon Photos / Google Photos, or an app to bulk import photos from a DSLR camera or something) should have to apply to Apple to get that specific entitlement- and social media apps should not qualify. But in this case, they shouldn't need Precise Location access to get access to all the EXIF data.
Personally, I use a Shortcut to be able to share photos without metadata. It works very well. It's the one included with iVerify, but there are free ones in the Shortcuts library.
Forbes’s cookie pop up is ridiculous. They list all the ads trackers and it requires seemingly infinite scrolling. I am fortunate to have been able to delete Facebook and Instagram from my phone but being in Europe I have to use WhatsApp.
I have contacts in UK, Scotland, Germany, Norway, Pakistan, India, South Africa and probably a few more. They all have installed Telegram by now.
Of course I think we can do better than Telegram but at least I am not contributing to forcing everyone to give all their metadata to Facebook.