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Yeah. This is not particularly a Facebook problem. And it certainly is not an iPhone exclusive one. I would be willing to bet my 2¢ that Apple photo backups store your photos with exif data. Should be trivially easy to strip this info and "track" you as well. Am not seeing anyone crying over this.
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In some countries, you can't perform essential tasks such as booking a doctor's appointment without Whatsapp. It's not that simple.
Interesting, can you say what country you are thinking about?
we 'd be truly screwed if crappy WA would be adamand for such in any given country, even Putinocchio's, Xi's or KJU's. that country 'd be even more crappier than WA, and all FB-associated, which in turn would be quite an achievement on quite a, literally and metaphorically, negative scale in its own right
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> Its unclear what they do with it after The article states that FB all but confirmed that it is used for advertising purposes. > the author repeats the lies that apple doesn't collect/store/index your data. Where's the proof/evidence of this? Apps/OS have been found to leak/send some 'personal' data to Apple servers, but they say they don't track outside of apps (so app store ads use data from your app store usage e…
> Apps/OS have been found to leak/send some 'personal' data to Apple servers, This isn't about leaks, its about actual design. The itracker system scans your local area for tags, and reports back their IDs and your location. This was rolled out without consent. By default apple collects "significant locations", which is then accessible to the itracker system ostensibly to warn you about tracking devices. We accept th…
Go into settings and turn off iCloud for photos, keychain and any other app you don't want it to work with.
The difference of all of these things is that Apple is doing it to improve its apps for YOU, uploading photos from your phone to iCloud so you can see on other devices, or face recognition to group your photos, keychain copying is used across devices that you've enabled it for. FB is using the data to create targeted ads, Apple isn't. If you don't like Apples cloud processing of your photos or passwords turn it off.
The data may be in Apples iCloud but is 'private' - it's probably as secure as your home or the phone in your pocket and at least as private as the information the phone companies have about your phone location.
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
You lose useful features like finding photos based on location if you don't remember the date it was taken. 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…
Facebook would like to access your photos:
Select Photos
All Photos
Strip location and other metadataOr just delete Facebook apps.
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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.
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People used to send emails.
And they don't now. Which is why it's useful to be on platforms that people do use.
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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)
PC is different. They deliberately removed messaging from the mobile web interface, see my reply to konspence.
They removed that feature at the time their last big messenger outage happened.
messenger.com still works on Android Firefox as long as you switch to desktop mode.
Not sure for how long though, as it looks as if they are constantly sabotaging their platform. ..and it shows: Facebook Messenger feels far less relevant than maybe ten years ago.
In my German peer group everyone now uses either WhatsApp or Signal for private and Teams+email for work related communication.