Peter
I had not heard that FB could operate in the background, even after it is quit.
If you didn’t already know it, there is a setting under General called
Background App Refresh which I have selected off for FB.
The problems with browsers will be problems with browsers and FB, I suspect.
But FB is certainly causing grumpiness with its messager for iOS: you have to
instal and use FB messager to send messages, not through FB on iOS any longer.
I don’t know if that sort of thing has any bearing on your problems with FB.
Chris
> On 17 Dec 14, at 05:34, Peter Klein <pklein@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> A question for people who may be more plugged in to the mobile app world than
> me...
>
> Is there some sort of attrition policy or concerted effort by the big
> software and data companies to "break" things on mobile devices' standard
> browsers so people will be forced to use apps? And if so, is it just certain
> companies, or is everybody doing it?
>
> I got my iPad primarily so I could dictate emails and short bits of writing.
> And because the gestures of a touch device are different from a standard
> keyboard and mouse combination. All this meant better distributing the load
> on my hands, which sometimes get overworked by too much keyboarding, mousing
> and bassoon playing. So far, it's worked well.
>
> BUT... ever since iOS 8.1.1, using dictation (aka "Siri") in Facebook replies
> generate a long, mixed-up word salad using the words I said, but chopped up,
> re-ordered and repeated. I can *originate* a post with dictation just fine,
> but not reply. The buttons to edit or delete FB posts after the fact no
> longer work, and several other things are partially broken as well. This all
> happens with Chrome as well as Safari. And everything works just fine with
> the FB app.
>
> The optimist in me says that this is just a by-product of the inevitable bugs
> in a huge project like the iOS upgrade. The cynic in me says that this is all
> about steering us towards apps, where our behavior can be ever more
> deliberately tabulated, analyzed and sold to advertisers, and our eyeballs
> ever-more-cleverly and frequently diverted to what "they" want us to see.
> Recently FB said that as of November, they were going to send data about
> users' browsing habits to their "affiliates and partners," even when the
> users were not on FB. And indeed, the most recent versions of the FB app run
> in the background, even after you've closed the app. I confirmed this with a
> system checker app I have. And FB now knows" when I have new notifications
> even when the app is supposedly closed.
>
> That's why I deleted the app a while back. But today, I got fed up with the
> problem (not fixed in iOS 8.1.2), and I loaded the FB app again. So I guess
> they've got me just where they want me.
>
> Add to this a recent experience I had. I needed a case for my bassoon bocals
> (the bent silver tube that goes between the reed and the instrument). Bocal
> cases from a music store cost $60 and up. But a just-as-good alternative is
> $15 pistol case. I did a Google search for said pistol case. I backed out of
> the first site when it asked me for my date of birth and to donate money to
> preserve my Second Amendment rights. I eventually bought the case on Amazon.
> Now whenever I go on Amazon, they try to sell me a gun. Not only that, eBay
> did the same thing a few times. How did they know? "They" are not supposed to
> look at each other's cookies, but I guess they do. Or somehow in IP address I
> went to looking for the pistol case got interpreted as "this guy is a gun
> owner." Or some other under-the-hood thing. Regardless of how, it's creepy.
>
> It seems to me that within a app, the safeguards are less, and "they" can
> engage in more creepy behavior which is harder to detect or prevent. I don't
> wish to don a tinfoil hat, but I'm starting to get a more and more suspicious
> of apps. It seems like in return for a smoother "experience," we get to give
> up more and more of our information. They have sneakier and sneakier ways of
> getting it, and it will be used in all sorts of ways.
>
> So what should I do? Fight? Give up the Internet? Take my Soma and be
> happy?
>
> --Peter
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