[arp242]

> Every attempt to talk about this gets ignored or buried (maybe by people who want this ""feature"" to be kept quiet) so I will take every opportunity on existing discussions about Facebook to bring it up:

Or maybe this happens because it's completely off-topic here and has nothing what-so-ever to do with WhatsApp?

Most of your other messages seem similarly off-topic: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Not only that, people have already answered your question in a previous thread.

[Razengan]

It's less of a "question" and more of a "WHY THE FUCK is this even a thing???" and why aren't people giving FB/Apple hell for this??

There was a popular post just a few hours ago about Filezilla (whatever that is) containing adware in the default download.

This is a FAR more grave violation of privacy than anything so far — Tracking people ACROSS reinstalls AND MULTIPLE PHONES!