Facebook Research Warned of ‘Tipping Point’ Threat to Core App

Re:Facebook Research Warned of ‘Tipping Point’ Threat to Cor... by apazzolini on Thursday July 25, 2019 @12:29PM (#20526744)

If you have a content blocker turned on in iOS, install the PWA version of Instagram - it will remove all sponsored posts.

The PWA version is almost as good as the native app. It lacks a pull to refresh feature as far as I can tell, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

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Re:Facebook Research Warned of ‘Tipping Point’ Threat to Cor... by newscracker on Thursday July 25, 2019 @01:01PM (#20527171)

What I would love on iOS would be an isolated container like the Multi-account Containers on Firefox desktop. With a PWA, how are the cookies (and local storage) stored and handled? Do they all live with Safari's cookies? Or do they have their own cookie container that's isolated from the rest of the system? If it were the former, I wouldn't want that.

I regularly use Firefox Focus (which is also the system wide content blocker for me), but it doesn't seem like its blocking rules are updated often. Not sure if that's because of some limit in the number of rules allowed per blocking extension.

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Re:Facebook Research Warned of ‘Tipping Point’ Threat to Cor... by sharatvir on Thursday July 25, 2019 @12:59PM (#20527129)

Great suggestion. It’s actually a pretty solid experience. Only other difference is that it does not auto play videos on feed or story.

Maybe that’s a feature for some though.

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