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WhatsApp Messaging Interoperability

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Re: WhatsApp Messaging Interoperability

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Post by brink »

Why do all Meta websites intentionally break the back button? It makes me irrationally angry every time I visit facebook or instagram for how disrespectful it is, it's like it springs a trap where I'm not allowed to leave in the browser tab I arrived in.

Re: WhatsApp Messaging Interoperability

#5

Post by Razengan »

There's something really appalling that I discovered lately and I can't believe there isn't enough uproar about it. Every attempt to talk about this gets ignored or buried (maybe by people who want this ""feature"" to be kept quiet) so I will take every opportunity on existing discussions about Facebook to bring it up:

Facebook (and TikTok) store tracking data on iOS that the user CANNOT SEE and CANNOT DELETE:

• It shows my previous account even after I delete the app.

• Clearing Safari's cache does not work.

• Disabling iCloud Drive and iCloud Keychain does not work.

• Even completely signing out of iCloud does not work!

• On a Mac in the Terminal, you can go to ~/Library/Mobile Documents and "ls -al" to see hidden folders like "iCloud~com~Facebook~Messenger" that you cannot otherwise view or delete.

• Someone mentioned that even RESTORING an iCloud BACKUP will resurrect these "eternal cookies"!!

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WHERE do they store this data?

WHY can't the user see this data?

WHY can't the user delete this data without going through the app?

WHAT ELSE do apps store on our devices that we aren't even aware of? (This is just what we can see: The list of saved accounts for "quick login")

HOW MANY other apps are secretly doing this?

WHY does Apple, parading around as a pompous paragon of privacy, even allow this in the first place??

Re: WhatsApp Messaging Interoperability

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Post by HumblyTossed »

brink wrote: post #2

Why do all Meta websites intentionally break the back button? It makes me irrationally angry every time I visit facebook or instagram for how disrespectful it is, it's like it springs a trap where I'm not allowed to leave in the browser tab I arrived in.

I find any site that does this to be user hostile and minimize my time spent there.

Re: WhatsApp Messaging Interoperability

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Post by HumblyTossed »

Razengan wrote: post #5

There's something really appalling that I discovered lately and I can't believe there isn't enough uproar about it. Every attempt to talk about this gets ignored or buried (maybe by people who want this ""feature"" to be kept quiet) so I will take every opportunity on existing discussions about Facebook to bring it up: Facebook (and TikTok) store tracking data on iOS that the user CANNOT SEE and CANNOT DELETE: • It s…

This is nuts. There should be a grand total of zero files on my personal computing device that I cannot remove (no matter the consequences).

Re: WhatsApp Messaging Interoperability

#9

Post by Pannoniae »

The most hilarious part:

"Partner represents and warrants that it shall not introduce into WhatsApp’s Systems or Infrastructure, the Sublicensed Encryption Software, or otherwise make accessible to WhatsApp any viruses or any software licensed under the General Public Licence or any similar licence (e.g. GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL), GNU General Public License (GPL), GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) containing a "copyleft" requirement during performance of the Services"

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