Facebook's behaving badly, again!

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#245366 31-Jan-2019 12:36

Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them link here

Extract: Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed in August. Facebook sidesteps the App Store and rewards teenagers and adults to download the Research app and give it root access to network traffic in what may be a violation of Apple policy so the social network can decrypt and analyze their phone activity

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#2170690 31-Jan-2019 12:41

Now banned - https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/apple-bans-facebook-vpn/

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#2170692 31-Jan-2019 12:42

Apple revoked Facebook's developer certificate, which has apparently caused all hell to break loose at Facebook's HQ as the same certificate is being used for all of its internal staff apps.

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#2170759 31-Jan-2019 14:19

My opinion is Facebook is really a cesspit. I use the service for various reasons but really would like to not to.

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#2170762 31-Jan-2019 14:25

Behodar: Apple revoked Facebook's developer certificate, which has apparently caused all hell to break loose at Facebook's HQ as the same certificate is being used for all of its internal staff apps.

Classic. Can't think of anything funnier this year so far. Hope they make Facebook fight like crazy to get that cert reinstated.

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#2170763 31-Jan-2019 14:25

freitasm:

My opinion is Facebook is really a cesspit. I use the service for various reasons but really would like to not to.

Same. CEO needs to be gone, in fact the entire cxo suite. They need to appoint an ethics executive to review all actions and remediate.

Some of the links FB has made for me with other people have been exceptionally creepy, esp given I don't use my real name. (including connecting me to my wife as "spouse" based on a photo of her and my son (without me in it) because my Son and I look (very) similar. What is worse, is I do not use a photo, nor have I ever linked a photo of myself, to Facebook.

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#2170766 31-Jan-2019 14:30

freitasm:
My opinion is Facebook is really a cesspit. I use the service for various reasons but really would like to not to.

Same. I have Facebook on my phone so browse as little as possible from it. Most of my browsing is done from a tablet which doesn't have, never has and never will, FB or FB Messenger installed. Naturally that doesn't get around the transparent pixel that most websites have installed these days.

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#2170784 31-Jan-2019 14:55

Good on Apple for doing that. It maybe gives them a little bit of redemption from the terrible week that they have been having.