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aaaaaaaaaab on Jan 14, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Android vendors, don’t kill my app

>I don’t think you could implement a tracking socket masquerading as a background download

The Facebook app used to play a silent audio track to stay active in the background, until they got called out: https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/3opxhm/facebook_app...

toyg on Jan 14, 2019 [–]

Holy crap, I didn’t know that. Yet another reason I was right to uninstall the app and just use the website.

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