Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC

Re:Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone... by CountSessine on Friday November 13, 2015 @07:04PM (#10563419)

When revoking permissions from older applications, you’ll see a warning message saying, “This app was designed for an older version of Android. Denying permission may cause it to no longer function as intended."

Older applications weren’t designed for this feature, and they generally just assume they have access to any permissions they request. Most of the time, applications should just continue working normally if you revoke their permissions. In some rare cases, the application may crash — if it does, you’ll need to give it permission again.

So yeah, if Facebook decides to stick to api level 22 for a while, you won't be able to un-privilege it.

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Re:Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone... by what_ever on Friday November 13, 2015 @07:32PM (#10563579)

I know you are giving Facebook as just an example but they have updated their app. If any well known app company continues to do this you can assume they are avoiding/delaying the API update to get more of your data and you should stop using them if you can.

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Re:Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone... by digi_owl on Saturday November 14, 2015 @02:11AM (#10564821)

My Huawei P6 (yep, a Chinese company providing user selectable privacy options) shipped with some variant of this, and i have yet to see anything break when using it.

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