how would that explain connection to facebook?
Comment on Ally (bank)mobile app fails without connection to graph.facebook.com
ChatGPT@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s probably NTP a lot of banking apps have extra protections and if it can’t determine the time from its own trusted authority it may not allow the connection.
14th_cylon@lemm.ee 11 months ago
randomguy2323@lemmy.fmhy.ml 11 months ago
It is not only Facebook that is been block if you take the time to read the log you will see the NTP connection is being block too.
xintrik@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The app in the screenshot is just capturing packets. The list shown are connections made during the capture and closed just means the connection is not currently active.
That said, I downloaded Ally, ran that same packet capture but never saw anything sent to Facebook. I got to the login screen just fine.
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It doesn’t.
OP is claiming that disallowing the connection to Facebook is stopping the log in, but it might be the connection to the ntp server instead.
EpicFailGuy@kbin.social 11 months ago
It doesn't, the implication is that it's not the connection to FB what's making the app not work, but the lack of NTP sync.
Plenty of apps reach out to FB for widgets, or those stupid "share your experience with your friends" buttons that no one uses ... that's why we block them in the first place.
rcmaehl@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ads & Analytics, like most things.
danc4498@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Is it normal that a bank app tries to connect to meta?
Action_Bastid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Meta provides a lot of other backend services beyond just Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
You think that’s the only way they have of scarfing down data? Absolutely not, they make other useful tools as well that businesses can use, because if they can’t get their info directly from you, they can get it from the people you have to regularly interact with instead.
danc4498@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is gross… but also not something I’ve really thought about.
almar_quigley@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The implication is that OP’s assessment is incorrect and the blocked requests to launchdarkly are what’s preventing them from logging in. The Facebook requests don’t show a source so they could be from another device.
s38b35M5@lemmy.world 11 months ago
When I unblock the Facebook address, the app opens as expected.
I’m not blocking any NTP. My home servers rely on it (just TrueNAS checks time every minutes…), but I do block DNS outbound to force using my own DNS.
fatalicus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You are blocking NTP though. Look at your image, all the way at the bottom.
rcmaehl@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Launchdarkly is likely a culprit as well. Just doing a background search reveals that the service allows dev teams to do A/B testing, enable new features without releasing a new version, and various other “dynamic” functions.
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stardust@lemm.ee 11 months ago
This is definitely it. I can’t believe more things aren’t broken by blocking launchdarkly
Radium@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
If you set it up correctly it defaults to a specific flag state if it can’t connect. I.e. always show the user the old treatment instead of the new if you can request the actual state of their enrollment.
They get blocked constantly and my old company just routed the requests through our domain so they’d stop getting blocked
minikieff@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think you underestimate how shitty software can be.