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Re:App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveD... by yreg on Friday July 10, 2020 @07:38AM (#23790475)
Workaround for users: Enable airplane mode and disable WiFi, or block facebook domains

Workaround for developers: Go to Facebook Developer page > Analytics and disable automatic Events.[0] Apparently this doesn't solve the issue for everyone.

Issue in Facebook's tracker: https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/17391881029111...

[0] https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1427#iss...

Re:App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveD... by driverdan on Friday July 10, 2020 @08:59AM (#23791013)
Better workaround for everyone: Delete the Facebook SDK from your app and start caring about your users' privacy (and app stability).
Re:App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveD... by numpad0 on Friday July 10, 2020 @09:39AM (#23791349)
That's not a workaround, that's final solution
Re:App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveD... by creaghpatr on Friday July 10, 2020 @07:47AM (#23790533)
Thank you now I can listen to cached Spotify playlists!
Re:App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveD... by dividedbyzero on Friday July 10, 2020 @08:05AM (#23790650)
Do you know which domains one would need to block?
Re:App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveD... by yreg on Friday July 10, 2020 @08:09AM (#23790682)

    facebook.com
    fbcdn.com
    fbcdn.net
    fbsbx.com
    fb.com
    instagram.com
WhatsApp can work without these, but maybe a smaller subset would suffice. NextDNS[0] for iOS can be used for the blocking.

[0] https://nextdns.io/

Re:App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveD... by funmi on Friday July 10, 2020 @08:59AM (#23791006)
Excellent, I was looking for this, thank you! Spotify launched on my iPhone immediately after I added these domains to my NextDNS denylist.
Re:App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveD... by washicalendar on Friday July 10, 2020 @09:10AM (#23791092)
What if I want to keep using Messages app (I know I know, but I can’t avoid it)
Re:App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveD... by ffpip on Friday July 10, 2020 @08:28AM (#23790792)
connect.facebook.net graph.faceboom.com sdk.facebook.com
Re:App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveD... by lalos on Friday July 10, 2020 @09:55AM (#23791479)