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Re:Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and Wh... by ghostbrainalpha on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @04:42PM (#17241846)
Except to show that notification on your phone, Facebook needs to give a 3rd party (Phone Manufacturer) access not only to your data, but data about your friends.

This is something people are currently very upset with them for doing.

So they can make things convenient, or keep your data safe, but its hard to do both.

Re:Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and Wh... by ntlve on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @07:14PM (#17242958)
Their code is executing with a third party kernel, trusting that but not trusting the notification system which sits way above hierarchically seems like a very arbitrary delineation.
Re:Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and Wh... by tripzilch on Thursday June 07, 2018 @11:03AM (#17256364)
> So they can make things convenient, or keep your data safe, but its hard to do both.

Even if your argument made sense with respect to the thing people are currently very upset about (which I disagree that it does), there is absolutely NO inherent right for FB to exist if they're unable to do both (if it's just "hard", well then get busy).

If I want to keep my data safe, they get to "inconvenience" me? That's ridiculous, if they can't keep my data safe, they don't get shit.

"But it's hard!"

cry me a river

Re:Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and Wh... by hactually on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @12:39AM (#17244393)
That's simply not true.

It's an API to publish a notification - a similar API to that used to build the core app. There's no additional sharing of data than what's already happening running the app.