[tdrp]

I've always been curious as to how Giphy/other GIF providers are allowed to monetize on what is basically often snippets of copyrighted material.

Our app uses the Giphy API. Not having animated GIFs meant a few of our users would eventually leave or move to platforms that do have them.

After about a year of usage, we've been relatively happy with it. Our app is PG so we need to make sure all the GIFs sent are completely PG (otherwise users blame us rather than Giphy). Not sure if your API already has the tech to do this. Giphy was pretty good at it, and we only once got a report of a porn-like GIF.

That said:

a. Yes. FB SDK was already relatively sneakier than we had expected and we would have done away with it a while ago if we didn't have so many users "signed in with facebook"

b. I assume it's just a regular HTTP request but you probably want to have Kotlin/Swift/etc

c. We might move to it IF it turned out that the privacy issue was actually real and not just our own assumption.