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Something happened recently that we don't know exactly which part of the heart to record. The feeling we had was in fact a mixture of amusement and anxiety. Why do we say all this and why Without Facebook, a lot of apps break? Because that's exactly what happened a few days ago, on May 7.
Small explanation of what happened: Facebook has made an update to their developer application. Technically it's called SDK.
It is, in short, the way to enter Facebook within your apps. However, something unpredictable happened. Something went wrong during the update and many applications on iPhones have stopped working!
At a certain point of the day numerous applications, which theoretically have nothing to do with Facebook, they started to crash and become unusable. Let's talk about important apps like Spotify, Venmo, Tinder, TikTok, Pinterest and many others. This is kind of the funny part because there's some irony in the fact that your app doesn't work anymore because Facebook made a mistake. It's quite absurd depend in this way from a social network.
Without Facebook, a lot of apps break
But then comes the restlessness we were talking about before. Because reading the news you discover that users who also had problems they were not connected to Facebook, That They didn't even have Facebook installed and that maybe they never even had a Facebook account! This happens because, as we discovered recently, Facebook really follows you everywhere!
In fact, many people are totally unaware of the fact that i tracers of Facebook they are present in many apps, and this is precisely why we told you about the beautiful project ClassyShark3xodus. To discover yourself, in total autonomy and in really simple way, which application sells our data to Facebook! And maybe decide to stop using it for this very reason.
Or, why not, write to the authors that you do not agree with this choice. Us for example we did it with the application of INPS which included i tracers by Google. And after our report they took them away!
Many, too many tracers
Does it seem normal to you that, for example, Spotify ask Facebook for permission before it can work Otherwise everything will stop? For those interested there is a long thread on GitHub on this topic with developers with their hands in their hair because they can't get around this problem in any way. The quote below really says it all.
To stop crashes from the Facebook SDK, some devs tried commenting out any code that calls Facebook. Nothing worked. It turns out that by just including the SDK with your app, Facebook runs hidden code on launch.
Ben Sandofsky, developer, on Twitter
Our proposals are:
- Use Frost instead of the official Facebook application.
- Alternative social networks to Facebook
- Blokada, our article is not ready yet but you can try it yourself to block advertising and tracers
- DNS That they block tracers and advertising
- ClassyShark3xodus to find out what they contain Really the applications
- Furthermore, look at all the virtual garbage produce daily Google And Facebook
If you want to delve deeper into the news, find more information on The Verge and on Ars Technica.
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