In case anyone is curious and lazy, the origin of the name is Czech (for forced labor, if Wikipedia is to believed) and not English. Karel Capek wrote a play where he coined the term, and the name stuck despite his robots being biological
If you only care about browsing twitter passively, I recommend Nitter. It’s an alternative front end which displays the twitter content (almost all of it, not spaces) without JavaScript, ads, trackers etc. You can find instances here:
There is also an extension for Firefox and chromium called privacy redirect which you can setup to redirect twitter and other websites to alternative front-ends.
This is why I can’t enjoy most new games, especially since I am exclusively on smartphone games with limited time and no interest in paying for anything. All the multiplayer mobile games set up this scenario to push you to buy power ups to get that guy back who just wiped you off the map with a $5 item. Nah, I’ll just uninstall at that point.
I know a software developer that worked for Ally when they were adding this. They all said it was a terrible idea, but were ignored. The reason they claim it’s needed is to track app installs that originate from an ad on Facebook. Since the App Store sits in between the ad click and App launch, there isn’t an easy way to track it without that. But, it shouldn’t be blocking you from logging in.
Might not even be selling it, could just be an arrangement to use some sort of “sign in with facebook” service or even advertise on facebook marketplace/adverts
I remember we had to build an obj-c wrapper for FB’s calls like these because of these crashes, that basically ignored the stall and continued the user’s session regardless
Since the App Store sits in between the ad click and App launch, there isn’t an easy way to track it without that.
How does that work exactly? Does the App Store pass along some information to newly installed apps or something? My company’s app, which I worked on for some time, also uses an external service to track installs (not Facebook or any social media), but I didn’t work on the implementation of it and never really got to grips on how it works.
App store doesn’t, the app itself does, that’s why this thing is included in it.
You click an ad on FB = you’re ID’d by a cookie or login or account on the device or fingerprint or whatever (probably all of the above)
You install the app from app store. Neither the bank or FB knows this.
You launch the app. The integrated FB library reads the cookie or FB account on the device or whatever it can, and pings FB. FB compares this ID to the entries and finds that it was you who clicked the ad.
FB bills bank for an ad click
Another option is there to be a specific FB variant of the app with its own app store entry, but they probably wouldn’t do that for something this trivial.
Yea, I had to organize an Airport transfer and the company in Bulgaria still uses Viber. The other option was WhatsApp but I won’t install anything that’s even remotely related to Meta so I opted to get Viber for the meantime.
I hope you know you can go to Hell for saying these things. This is God’s elephant colors, man. You gotta stop talking bad about God’s elephant colors.
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