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Although completely believable and in-line knowing Meta/Facebook’s history, is there any evidence to support this claim? I’m sure it’s, unfortunately, just as easily deployed to specific targets so it may be hard to replicate, but this is pretty huge.

Anyone have any links/sources?

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I agree. Multiple apps bind to the keypress event to inject functionality. Binding to such event does not automatically imply nefarious intent.

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Facebook keylogs anything, even outside of FB in all pages with FB APIs (any page with an FB share button), if you don’t block it with an half a dozen extensions and scripts. For Example with

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My main goal on year 2018 was delete facebook. Unfortunately im still using whatsapp just because everyone uses it and i have no other place to talk with my friends and family.

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I think (do correct if wrong!) the EU has approved an interoperability law for big tech companies? So it should be just a matter of time until you can switch messaging app and still be able to communicate with people on wa and big messaging apps

Ofc if your friends all use whatsapp zuck will still be able to read all your messages and get your phone number via your contacts… so it’s only a partial solution. Still better than nothing tho.

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That link you added is being very very negative about it and even after reading it I really don’t understand why…

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Holy shit, that should be illegal. I say should because I know there’s no way that it currently is.

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Microsoft do the same with Windows and as far as I know, they haven’t got fined for it.

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