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

• 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.

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  • 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.

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• 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.

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• EpicFailGuy@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ads & Analytics, like most things.

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

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• danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • 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.

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    • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • grue@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s yet another reason why folks who suggest boycotts instead of legislative solutions to corporate abuse are deluding themselves.

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• 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.

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