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Facebook Now Lets Android Users Block Background Collection of Location Data (betanews.com)
Facebook has rolled out an update to Android users that gives them a greater degree of control over the sharing of location data with the social network. From a report: Specifically, the update makes it possible to stop Facebook from using tracking your location in the background when you are not using the app. The change brings parity to the iOS and Android Facebook apps. In introducing the new finer-grained controls, Facebook insists that it is "not making any changes to the choices you've previously made nor are we collecting any new information."
We only want what's best for you.
If no, this is sabotage.
... their predictive models are good enough that they don't need as much detail to track at the same of better levels...
Check your premises.
then the problem is solved, on linux it is, i have not seen a good way to do it on android, but i think android and ms-windows should let users block entire domains and their associated domains, that would make a good tool for android and windows users
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
This is the difference between open and closed source right here. In closed source, you need their permission for them to "allow" you to do things. With open source, you are free to add or remove what you want and when you want. Mostly open source doesn't bother adding in malfeatures because they know someone will just disable it and release a fork.
Closed source software is the leash they use to control you because that's all you are to them: cattle. Don't believe me? Has Microsoft allowed you to disable the telemetry yet?
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
... if only I believed that Facebook are actually doing what they say...
I'm using Fb's web interface via the "Metal" app, which prevents having to use their app, and solves browser compatibility issues. I don't trust their app, for obvious reasons.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
A convoluted opt out rather than a crystal clear opt-in?
Welcome to the American Chinese Jewish Nazi party. Your worst nightmare
Oh, the 30-50Mb twice-a-weekly update on the apps where changelog says
"Developer has not provided this information"
or
"We added this-a-doodle some two years ago, please use it..."
Facebook app updates have become more Java(tm) updates(tm) than Java(tm) updates(tm) themselves. Oh... wait...
How convenient. Zuckerberg is going to be sent to prison, at least he should be.
Corporatism != Free Market
Reading comprehension is clearly beyond the capabilities of deficients such as yourself. I said I praise your work when I'm logged in. Zontar doesn't praise your work. Try again.
Well, I'm not at all shocked and rushing to turn off the setting. Having your location tracked when not using the app - who doesn't expect that?
You can disable Facebook all you want on your Android device, but I'll bet a lot of money that google already sells that same information to Facebook and everybody else with a few bucks.
I don't respond to AC's.
See subject: Your MASSIVE FAIL in this life is you're nothing more than a chattering little do-nothing "ne'er-do-well" online & you know it...
* Is that the best your "phantasyland FAKE NAME" (for your fake lie of a so-called 'life') can manage?
When a FAKE NAME do nothing like YOU does better than I have? Then talk (you're all talk & no action)...
You can't help you're an immature little BUTTHURT no-mind, lol! I blew you away in TONS OF PLACES and easily dust your no-mind bullshit blatherings.
APK
P.S.=> The TRUE PRICE of your UNIDENTIFIABLE FAKE NAME do-nothing selves like you that I can ALWAYS CASH IN ON (lol) is that I can use FACT/TRUTH on them to SHATTER their all TOO fragile delusional egos that they actually know A DAMN THING in computing, lol... apk
Perhaps if slashdot had more GOLD in its page colors you'd be happy JUDEN? Hiding like the yellow belly your kind is, you'd like it. Stalking apk and impersonating him too? Yup, Yellow gold. Your GOD is the golden calf jew.
HILARIOUS u ADMIT u have a /. acct (Zontar the Mindless) & STALK me by UNIDENTIFIABLE ac https://hardware.slashdot.org/... - YOU have ISSUES, lunatic.
See subject & that's the "best ya got"? It proves You WISH you were ME (as your POOR imitation = the sincerest form of flattery).
APK
P.S.=> I know WHY you do it though (out of "butthurt angst", lol): I've BLOWN YOU AWAY so many times under your MANY alter-ego SOCKPUPPET /. accounts FAKENAMES you're out for "revenge" only to have EGG ON YOUR FACE yet again... apk
Facebook had a secret policy of collecting data. Now that it has been revealed, they claim not to have a secret policy for collecting data anymore.
O RLY
They think people are stupid, of course, and they might be right. They assume that people won't assume the obvious, being that FB has lots of channels for this activity and they simply disavow any channels that get outed, all the while creating more and increasingly elaborate versions of the same policies and practices. It's Darwinian; the methods that are vulnerable to detection get detected and "killed off", while those harder to detect simply go forward and multiply until the entire Internet ecosystem is filled with nothing but invisible, stealthy practices that nobody can detect. Forever.
No doubt they appreciate all our hard efforts to help them evolve their practices toward the perfect optimal. The perfect alpha predator, devouring everything that looks like information.
=^..^= all your rodent are belong to us
Khazar Talmudic Jews believe this of all they call goyim/gentiles (any non-jew): Jews = biggest racists of all for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Peron, Spanish inquistion, France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Driven into DESERTS ages ago! Don't wonder why after all those exilings above.
Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zMVZ8HnFI/ where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud.
This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple & they killed him for it. Jeremiah did the same to them also + the Essenes could not stand them either breaking away from the pharisee corruption):
Jew Talmud excerpts (the book that calls Christ's mother a whore & a bastard of a roman soldier):
1. Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal."
2. Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed."
3. Sanhedrin 59a: "A goy (Gentile) who pries into The Law (Talmud) is guilty of death."
4. Yebhamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age."
5. Schabouth Hag. 6d: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording."
6. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Do not save Goyim in danger of death."
7. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Show no mercy to the Goyim."
8. Choschen Hamm 388, 15: "If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth."
9. Choschen Hamm 266,1: "A Jew may keep anything he finds which belongs to the Akum (Gentile). For he who returns lost property (to Gentiles) sins against the Law by increasing the power of the transgressors of the Law. It is praiseworthy, however, to return lost property if it is done to honor the name of God, namely, if by so doing, Christians will praise the Jews and look upon them as honorable people."
10. Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: "A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them."
11. Baba Necia 114, 6: "The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts."
12. Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56-D: "When the Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves."
13. Nidrasch Talpioth, p. 225-L: "Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night."
14. Aboda Sarah 37a: "A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated."
15. Gad. Shas. 2:2: "A Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jewish girl."
16. Tosefta. Aboda Zara B, 5: "If a goy kills a goy or a Jew, he is responsible; but if a Jew kills a goy, he is NOT responsible."
17. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 388: "It is permitted to kill a Jewish denunciator everywhere. It is permitted to kill him even before he denounces."
18. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348: "All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which, consequently, is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples."
19. Tosefta, Abda Zara VIII, 5: "How to interpret the word 'robbery.' A goy is forbidden to steal, rob, or take women slaves, etc., from a goy or from a Jew. But a Jew is NOT forbidden to do all this to a goy."
20. Seph. Jp., 92, 1: "God has given the Jews power over the possessions and blood of all nations."
21. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen H
"Specifically, the update makes it possible to stop Facebook from using tracking your location in the background when you are not using the app. "
Well shit so long as they ONLY stalk me while I'm using Facebook. I think MZ might have been on to something when he called his users "dumb fucks".
See subject: Via APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux/BSD h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p
Yields more security/speed/reliability/anonymity vs. any 1 solution (99% of threats use hostnames vs. IP address most firewalls use) more efficiently/FASTER + NATIVELY 4 less!
Vs. "Bolt on 'MoAr' illogic-logic" slowing u hosts speed u up 2 ways: Adblocks + Hardcode fav. sites u spend most time @ vs. competition w/ security bugs (DNS/AntiVir) + overheads slowing u (messagepass 'souled-out' to advertisers easily detected & blocked addons + firewall filtering drivers) & their complexity leads to exploit!
* ONLY 1 of its kind in GUI 4 Linux (soon 4 MacOS)!
(Better vs. Windows model)
APK
P.S.=> Protects vs. scripts/trackers (kernelmode faster vs. usermode slower NoScript vs. 3rd party script)/ads/DNS request tracking + redirect poisoned or downed DNS/botnets/malware download/malcript/email malicious payload
Good lord, as a former Facebook user who decided it was toxic and a waste of time, and who never gave them real information in the first place ...
Why would I trust Facebook here?
Facebook, were it personified in its corporate personhood, is a slimy weasley lying sack of shit of an asshole douchebag ass munching whore. That goes for Zuckerfuck as well.
Ha ha, to atone for spying on you wherever you went without your consent, we're going to give you a button so we can pretend that you can opt out of us spying on you wherever you go without your consent ... but since we're assholes we'll still spy on you wherever you go without your consent.
No, the answer is to stop using Facebook. The problem is Facebook and social media have made it so people can't bear to not be seen doing whatever boring ass shit they are doing. People crave the attention social media brings.
God, sometimes I'm glad I'm an antisocial asshole, it has spared me from giving a fuck about the scourge which is social media.
Fuck Facebook, and fuck any ad, analytics, and tracking company.
I will not be counted.
Reg the Blank
You tempt me to stop browsing at -1.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
Nothing and I mean NOTHING tempts Jews like GOLD! Especially stolen from goyim cattle https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...
Khazar Talmudic Jews believe this of all they call goyim/gentiles (any non-jew): Jews = biggest racists of all for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Peron, Spanish inquistion, France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Driven into DESERTS ages ago! Don't wonder why after all those exilings above.
Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zMVZ8HnFI/ where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud.
This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple & they killed him for it. Jeremiah did the same to them also + the Essenes could not stand them either breaking away from the pharisee corruption):
Jew Talmud excerpts (the book that calls Christ's mother a whore & a bastard of a roman soldier):
1. Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal."
2. Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed."
3. Sanhedrin 59a: "A goy (Gentile) who pries into The Law (Talmud) is guilty of death."
4. Yebhamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age."
5. Schabouth Hag. 6d: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording."
6. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Do not save Goyim in danger of death."
7. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Show no mercy to the Goyim."
8. Choschen Hamm 388, 15: "If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth."
9. Choschen Hamm 266,1: "A Jew may keep anything he finds which belongs to the Akum (Gentile). For he who returns lost property (to Gentiles) sins against the Law by increasing the power of the transgressors of the Law. It is praiseworthy, however, to return lost property if it is done to honor the name of God, namely, if by so doing, Christians will praise the Jews and look upon them as honorable people."
10. Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: "A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them."
11. Baba Necia 114, 6: "The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts."
12. Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56-D: "When the Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves."
13. Nidrasch Talpioth, p. 225-L: "Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night."
14. Aboda Sarah 37a: "A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated."
15. Gad. Shas. 2:2: "A Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jewish girl."
16. Tosefta. Aboda Zara B, 5: "If a goy kills a goy or a Jew, he is responsible; but if a Jew kills a goy, he is NOT responsible."
17. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 388: "It is permitted to kill a Jewish denunciator everywhere. It is permitted to kill him even before he denounces."
18. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348: "All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which, consequently, is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples."
19. Tosefta, Abda Zara VIII, 5: "How to interpret the word 'robbery.' A goy is forbidden to steal, rob, or take women slaves, etc., from a goy or from a Jew. But a Jew is NOT forbidden to do all this to a goy."
20. Seph. Jp., 92, 1: "God has given the Jews power over the possessions and blood of all nations."
21. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen H
At least on Samsung phones, you can't delete it. Why? WTF is the app doing?
That'll show them
Article Summarized:
Creepy Facebook rolls out an update that adds no-op "privacy" controls intended to fool gullible users into falsely believing it is no longer spying on them 24/7.
Notice how, whenever there is an unfavorable story about Big Brother Google or Creepy Facebook, there are hundreds of anti-semitic and "APK" shitposts. This is likely the work of one or more PR firms. It is a kind of denial of service attack, intended to disrupt public discussion of these evil companies' misdeeds.
This type of organized denial of service attack may well be illegal under existing, draconian US law. Anyone with information that could lead to the exposure of the miscreant PR firm(s) should post it here. Many many people in the security industry and USIC read Slashdot. Help us put a stop to these villains today!
I don't even have this crap installed on my Android.
Facebook has repeatedly broken the rules, given away data specifically made private; sold to the highest bidder & or just the clever partner that could leech the data off them.
We, as a species need to disconnect from facebook.
A 'singular oddity' is an event that cannot be explained and only happens when you are alone.
Facebook only makes changes like this after they get caught. And even then, Facebook sometimes does not make the changes they say they will be making or else later they revert those changes.
Facebook only cares about profit. Not about users.
I should be in control of background data. Not facebook, not the carrier, not Microsoft, not google.
Great! How about letting me sort my news feed in chronological order (by date posted, and not date of last frigging comment)?
"Murphy was an optimist" - O'Toole's commentary on Murphy's Law
They're cleaning house or at the least, looking like they are to avoid potential subpoenas and lawsuits.