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Re:How Facebook tracks you on Android [video] by lazyjones on Sunday December 30, 2018 @08:35PM (#18792484)
> The Android platform API should simply never allow apps to obtain global system identifiers (serial numbers, "advertising IDs", MACs, Wifi network info, EMEIs etc) in the first place. Perhaps even going as far as not providing a shared filesystem.

Well, that's a nice wish for Santa, but does anyone really expect such a policy from an advertising company like Google?

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Re:How Facebook tracks you on Android [video] by markovbot on Sunday December 30, 2018 @08:45PM (#18792518)
Not without public pressure. Commenting on it, reminding everyone that this is actually Google's fault in the first place, etc, is a good way to apply that pressure. Otherwise it's just on Facebook, and they do not give a fuck what people think of them.
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