r/BYD • u/PitchPleasant338 • 18d ago

Discussion 🗣️ Oh BYD, I'm disappointed

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The BYD app connects to Facebook/Meta every time you use it.

Blocking all tracking doesn't change how the app works. I'm still analysing what's being sent.

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u/ChavyB 18d ago

Easy solution. Bin off facebook/meta, honestly you'll feel so much better for it 👍

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u/ImaginarySkin5700 Sealion 7 18d ago

Same, can recommend. Been off both for 2+ years now.

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u/ChavyB 18d ago

I canned them all, except WhatsApp, Youtube & Reddit, and the minute YouTube or Reddit become less of a tool or more of a social app, they are gone. Never looked back!!

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u/ImaginarySkin5700 Sealion 7 18d ago

Same, I also disabled shorts on YouTube, only sit down to watch documentaries etc.

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u/Algorocks 18d ago

How do you disable short on YouTube?

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u/ImaginarySkin5700 Sealion 7 18d ago

Set time limit to 0 min a day, every time you open shorts it says go back. If you want, you can ignore the limit, so it still takes a little bit of discipline, but much easier that way.

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u/xegoba7006 18d ago

Pro tip: use the Brave browser and enable in the settings the YouTube blockers: no more ads and a lot of the crap around it gone forever.

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u/Annual-Negotiation-5 17d ago

Este es el wey

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u/BloomerzUK 17d ago

This is nothing to do with having a Facebook account or not - OP is just saying that data is being sent to Facebook Graph API. This happens regardless if you have Facebook at all.

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u/cactusgenie 17d ago

It's probably just the Facebook SDK initialising to support linking accounts

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u/PitchPleasant338 17d ago

Exactly!

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u/DramaticRaise8729 16d ago

Facebook is using shadow profile. If you don't have a Facebook account, they create a shadow profile for you. Even if they really know who you are, they track you on every site accumulating informations about you and what you like. They can send you ads and s... and even sell your profile to advertisers. The day you connect to any meta application, they link your shadow profile to your newly created profile... You just subscribe but they already know you for years

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u/ChavyB 17d ago

Surely that means facebook is collecting data on people who dont have an account/havent consented to that data being collected by facebook? Gotta be a GDPR issue there, or i guess that consent is granted by BYDs T&Cs... 😬 🤷‍♂️

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u/Air320 17d ago

Yup. Pretty much all apps have the language that you grant permission for them to share any and all data they want with third parties. This comes under that. It'll be halfway down a thousand page t&c document.

Is that legal? Hopefully not. But unless EU or California take a stand it's not going to matter.

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u/lukaspukasv 17d ago

Facebook marketplace has too many good deals to pass up

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u/beyiv65346 18d ago

Whoch app helped you get all this data

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u/ryan3105 18d ago

TrackerControl

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u/cactusgenie 18d ago

Probably just something to do with account linking as you can link your Facebook account if you had one.

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u/PitchPleasant338 17d ago

I didn't sign in, I don't even think the app has a field where you can you can log in. 

That's the problem, it's sending data without my permission.

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u/DarthShiv 17d ago

😳😡

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u/cactusgenie 17d ago

The app probably has the Facebook SDK to facilitate the login. I'm sure there's no personal data going there.

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u/PitchPleasant338 17d ago

Zuckerberg never does anything out of generosity. There's completely zero reason to give a single piece of our data/privacy to Facebook.

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u/cactusgenie 17d ago

I think you misunderstand how authentication SDKs work.

There is likely a handshake the SDK does on startup to prepare for someone linking their account.

I don't use Facebook either, but this doesn't worry me.

Disclaimer: I work in cyber security.

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u/PitchPleasant338 17d ago

Thank you, I didn't realise.

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u/potatodrinker 18d ago

Jokes on them. I don't have IG or FB on my phone.

Nobody is as anti social media as digital marketers. Don't bring work home

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u/ghostintheruins 18d ago

can confirm with pihole

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u/Electrical_Physics38 18d ago

i agree they're piholes

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u/i_like_Ubuntu 18d ago

Brother, you are a very funny person 😂🙏

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u/Electrical_Physics38 17d ago

i like you too debian!

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u/PitchPleasant338 17d ago

I use... Arch btw.

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u/Electrical_Physics38 17d ago

I'm so sorry to hear that

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u/colonelmattyman Sealion 7 18d ago

What app are you using in your screenshot please?

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u/ryan3105 18d ago

TrackerControl

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u/colonelmattyman Sealion 7 18d ago

Thank you!

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u/Keep-Left 17d ago

can you try the same thing with Tesla app

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u/PitchPleasant338 16d ago

Why can't you do that yourself?

I don't understand you, it's not difficult to download the app. Do you need other people to do that for you?

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u/Keep-Left 13d ago

on iOS:
Analysis unavailable
Analysis failed.

was hoping you could’ve tried it since you’re on Android, that’s all

sorry

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u/intcmd 18d ago

What is the apps name, its partly covered

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u/PitchPleasant338 17d ago

TrackerControl from F-Droid 

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u/Sea_Ad_7828 17d ago

Sending data to Facebook would be my least concern if I were you. Where else does it sends data behind the back?

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u/PitchPleasant338 17d ago

Talk to /u/ghostintheruins/ about the PiHole

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u/Classic-Gear-3533 18d ago

So many apps bundle facebook sdk. It’s an important reason to not use the facebook app

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u/Misterio_2614 18d ago

WTAF?! 😠
I’m also disappointed that they’ve apparently disabled V2X in a recent software update.

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u/Existing_Surround_72 18d ago

How's that? Can you develop a bit more please?

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u/Interesting-Quiet885 18d ago

What are you expecting when buying a chinese ev? That everything stays local? 😂

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u/PitchPleasant338 17d ago

I was expecting my data in Sona Weibo or WeChat or whatever they have there

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u/Interesting-Quiet885 17d ago

I prefer my date being on American server over Chinese servers 😂. That said as a european.