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by marinosbern 2169 days ago
While Spotify crashing on launch may be a nuisance, this also affects life-critical apps crashing on launch. Our forensic analysis [1] found that half of the top 21 iOS safety apps send data to Facebook, and last time this happened back in May we spot-checked some of these safety apps and they were all crashing on launch. The SDK is typically included for ad attribution/tracking, not Facebook login, so it wouldn’t even be visible to the end user, and there’s no way to disable it.

[1] https://parachute.live/blog/forensic-investigation-the-shock...
2 comments
swagonomixxx 2169 days ago
I'm sorry, but if someone is building a life-critical app and using Facebook, just, why? Do they want to tell FB about all your critical conditions too?
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letitbeirie 2169 days ago
I've installed dozens of life-safety-critical services and none of them had ads or the Facebook SDK for very good reasons. AMA.
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marinosbern 2169 days ago
> I've installed dozens of life-safety-critical services and none of them had ads or the Facebook SDK

Can you give a few examples?

> none of them had ads

The comment was about the Facebook SDK being used for ad attribution, not that the apps themselves have ads.

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