facebook What is facebook doing in my background?

[SakethS]

I haven't open facebook since 2-3 month and then I see this

Spoiler

What the fuck it doing in background I haven't even open it for a second. I didn't even give it a single permission.

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Then I cleared cacha and disabled it, then charged my phone.

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This happens after 4 hours ,even after disabling and clearing cache data.

Finally deleted Facebook.

[Master Disaster]

Sending the Zuck all that sweet sweet personal information about how you use your phone, where you've been, who you've been calling and texting etc etc.

[SansVarnic]

Placed your photos in spoiler for you....

 

1 hour ago, SakethS said:

Finally deleted Facebook

That was a wise move.

[SakethS]

2 hours ago, SansVarnic said:

Placed your photos in spoiler for you....

 

That was a wise move.

Absolutely

[SakethS]

4 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Sending the Zuck all that sweet sweet personal information about how you use your phone, where you've been, who you've been calling and texting etc etc.

I didn't give it any app permission, even though I don't think it needs .

I use it for games, etc.

[TetraSky]

Facebook is always running in the background. Always listening. Always spying. Always "ready" for you to pick it up and use it. Also it needs to always be running for Facebook Messenger, so that doesn't help either.

 

You could've also just Disabled it instead of outright uninstalling it in case you ever wanted to reuse it again (good that you could, some phones install it as a System app by default and you can't do anything to it).

[piratemonkey]

Depends on a ton of different things. If it has storage permission, it's snooping though files. If there's video/photo and audio, could be recording that. If there's location enabled, it's definitely recording that. If there's data it can record, it will. It sounds like you only have it because you needed it for something like messenger. It will of course be recording that. 

And good on uninstalling it

[SakethS]

3 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

Facebook is always running in the background. Always listening. Always spying. Always "ready" for you to pick it up and use it. Also it needs to always be running for Facebook Messenger, so that doesn't help either.

 

You could've also just Disabled it instead of outright uninstalling it in case you ever wanted to reuse it again (good that you could, some phones install it as a System app by default and you can't do anything to it).

I disabled it and cleared cache data(after taking that 1st screenshot), 4 hours after that I took 2nd screenshot. #no_use, so uninstalled

[SakethS]

2 minutes ago, piratemonkey said:

Depends on a ton of different things. If it has storage permission, it's snooping though files. If there's video/photo and audio, could be recording that. If there's location enabled, it's definitely recording that. If there's data it can record, it will. It sounds like you only have it because you needed it for something like messenger. It will of course be recording that. 

And good on uninstalling it

No permission are given, in my case

[SakethS]

7 hours ago, Caroline said:

Have you deleted facebook the software or your facebook account? It takes a few time to "delete" your account although I don't think your data is ever removed from their servers.

Even if you don't have an account they can profile you, the same with Google.

 

Do you use the stock google OS on your phone or a custom rom? there are a couple that seems to be nice and more privacy focused if you care about it

Wooo I didn't know that. I only deleted app, need account so.