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by lonelappde 2230 days ago
The resources are trivial. If you don't like it you don't have to use the app that you chose to install.
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>The resources are trivial.

Some of them aren't, though. The Facebook SDK isn't a trivial resource. It also depends a lot on the specific device the software is being loaded on to. It may be trivial to a newer device or one with upgraded hardware, but perhaps not so with baseline hardware or devices several years old.

>If you don't like it you don't have to use the app that you chose to install.

This argument may work with someone working in the software industry, but falls flat the moment the implied obligation is place on the unsuspecting.

You've very quickly sidestepped the primary point of the parent - many users would not know if it was even being loaded.
> The resources are trivial.

I think I as a user should get to decide that.