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by Barrin92 2234 days ago
>The FB SDK helps with this. You always have the choice to not install the app (if you don't want to).

up until now I wasn't even aware of the facebook sdk or that say, spotify is sharing my data with facebook even if I don't use their login option so it's pretty hard to make a informed decision.

Is this even legal under GDPR?
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Nextgrid 2234 days ago
To the best of my knowledge, no. Even if we assume advertising attribution falls under legitimate interest (which isn’t certain), it would still only allow them to call out to Facebook once after install to report whether the app was installed from an ad. As of right now the Facebook SDK calls out every single time the app is opened or brought back in foreground.
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petre 2234 days ago
> Is this even legal under GDPR?

I guess you could always complain about it to your country's data protection watchdog and then we'll all find out?

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