Comment on Ally (bank)mobile app fails without connection to graph.facebook.com

ChatGPT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• rcmaehl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is definitely it. I can’t believe more things aren’t broken by blocking launchdarkly

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    • Radium@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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      • minikieff@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think you underestimate how shitty software can be.

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• 14th_cylon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  how would that explain connection to facebook?

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  • randomguy2323@lemmy.fmhy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • xintrik@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • popekingjoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • EpicFailGuy@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    @14th_cylon

    @s38b35M5 @ChatGPT

    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.

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  • rcmaehl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ads & Analytics, like most things.

    developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/overview/

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is it normal that a bank app tries to connect to meta?

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    • Action_Bastid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is gross… but also not something I’ve really thought about.

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  • almar_quigley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• s38b35M5@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • fatalicus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You are blocking NTP though. Look at your image, all the way at the bottom.

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