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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by madeofpalk on Thursday March 08, 2018 @04:30AM (#16543334)
You can't A/B test iOS app binaries though.
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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by _0ffh on Thursday March 08, 2018 @05:03AM (#16543442)
You could A/B test different app behaviour with the same binary by branching on some pseudorandom (quasi-) constant like IMEI or phone number.
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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by madeofpalk on Thursday March 08, 2018 @05:12AM (#16543471)
Sure. But once you know that everyone has the same binary, you can reverse engineer the binary you know everyone has.
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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by willstrafach on Thursday March 08, 2018 @09:18AM (#16544426)
The nice thing is that you can reverse engineer it and sniff traffic to find out what the A/B tests are and what they do.
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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by Zhenya on Thursday March 08, 2018 @05:04AM (#16543446)
Couldn't you test 2 different behaviors in the same binary thought?
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