{"id":178308,"date":"2019-01-09T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/01\/09\/what-fresh-hell-is-this\/"},"modified":"2019-01-09T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T00:05:00","slug":"what-fresh-hell-is-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/01\/09\/what-fresh-hell-is-this\/","title":{"rendered":"What Fresh Hell is This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In response to repeated news about how they are contemptible liars, Facebook has adopted a new strategy, they are <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/01\/09\/facebook-is-the-new-crapware\/\">cutting details with phone manufacturers to install their app and make it unremovable<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sorry <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/03\/19\/deletefacebook\/\">#DeleteFacebook<\/a>, you never stood a chance. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-01-08\/samsung-phone-users-get-a-shock-they-can-t-delete-facebook\">Bloomberg<\/a> reported that the scandal-beset social media behemoth has inked an unknown number of agreements with Android smartphone makers, mobile carriers and OSes around the world to not only pre-load Facebook\u2019s eponymous app on hardware but render the software undeleteable; a permanent feature of your device, whether you like how the company\u2019s app can track your every move and digital action or not.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg spoke to a U.S. owner of a Samsung Galaxy S8 who, after reading forum discussions about Samsung devices, found his own pre-loaded Facebook app could not be removed. It could only be \u201cdisabled,\u201d with no explanation available to him as to what exactly that meant.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It means that your privacy is toast.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A Facebook spokesperson told Bloomberg that a disabled permanent app doesn\u2019t continue collecting data or sending information back to the company, but declined to specify exactly how many such pre-install deals Facebook has globally.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How many times has Facebook promised this, and has been found to be lying through teeth?<\/p>\n<p>OK, too tough.&nbsp; You run out of fingers, and toes.<\/p>\n<p>How many times has Facebook promised this, and has been found to be lying through teeth \u2026\u2026\u2026 <b>THIS YEAR<\/b>?<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, I highly recommend rooting your phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to repeated news about how they are contemptible liars, Facebook has adopted a new strategy, they are cutting details with phone manufacturers to install their app and make it unremovable: Sorry #DeleteFacebook, you never stood a chance. Yesterday Bloomberg reported that the scandal-beset social media behemoth has inked an unknown number of agreements &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,470,368,364,524,366,533],"class_list":["post-178308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-communications","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-manufacturing","tag-privacy","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}