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untog on March 26, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you do...

People crap on the web for its privacy record - justifiably - but at least you can open dev tools and see what the page is doing. Selling apps as being better for privacy just seems like a complete misstatement.

Polylactic_acid on March 26, 2020 [–]

And you can install extensions that do that for you and actually block the requests. I'm not aware of any tool to block the facebook sdk in apps.

roboyoshi on March 27, 2020 | [–]

well at leats at home I have a pihole with a facebook blocklist. There should be a portable pihole as well.

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