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I usually rearrange my budget a lot anyways. I have to move around categories because the app forgets sometimes but that's ok. It also has helpful bill reminders to remind me of how much my bills are. Nonetheless, they’ve lost my business as a result.I really enjoy the mint app, it helps me to keep track of what I'm spending and has helped me to cut back on over spending in multiple categories. It’s thus not a tremendous surprise that they send data to one of the biggest adĬompanies in the world. Mint users trust them with far more important data – namely, banking credentialsĪnd purchasing behavior – and do so knowing Mint makes money by serving targeted ads. Without running third party blocking services.
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Sure why there’s any, especially because there is no way to opt out of this ConclusionĪs you can see, there’s not a lot of data going to Facebook, but frankly I’m not
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The value did not change between launches. I’m unable to determine if this string is unique to my installation, or is more likeĪ version number for the Facebook SDK. This response incudes, in addition to the fields enabled,Īn id, which matches the string begining with fb in the url schemes above. This request appears to be made once per launch.
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This is a GET request listing several fields, eg supports_attribution, supports_implicit_sdk_logging,Īnd responds with hash indiciating which fields are enabled. I’m not sure what the old_anon_id is, but I imagine it is generated by the app to identify my instance. Note: the advertising ID is all zeros, as I’ve opted for Here’s a JSON format of the query parameters included in the request URL: This request is made every few minutes, as long as the application is in memory. This data to themselves without Mint involved. Is simply using a Facebook SDK for other purposes, and that Facebook may be sending I should note that the user agent provided is FBiOSSDK.3.21.0, suggesting Mint The app has very easy to understand instructions for doing so. (thanks to iOS’ app transport security), viewing request or response bodies require installing and trustingĪn intermediate certificate. That runs locally, similar to AdBlock, and logs all network requests. I eventually became suspicious that Intuit’s Mint app was sending data to Facebook, as I noticed DNS requests in AdBlock The best you can do is enable low-power mode, force quit an app you’re suspicious about, then launch it and watch the logs. Indentifying Mint as the Culpritĭue to the nature of iOS network requests, it is impossible for AdBlock to know which apps are making these requests. Will always fail on my device because the DNS lookup will always return 0.0.0.0, thanks for AdBlock. Yet several apps make many requests to Facebook – mostly POST requests to. I never “login using Facebook”, and I certainly receive no benefit from any requests sent to Facebook. As such, none of my apps are “linked” to a Facebook account, Your own blacklist, and to see how absolutely disgusting some applications can be.įor example, I have for years not had a Facebook account. The app can optionally log all requests, making it easier to maintain The app creates a local VPN, and when enabled, returns 0.0.0.0 when doing DNS lookups for blacklisted domains.ĭespite its name suggesting this is only useful for blocking ads, I use this primarily for blocking tracking DNS Level Ad Blockingįor the last year or so, I’ve been using an app on my iPhone called AdBlock for iOS. To opt-out of targeted ads on Facebook, which requires a Facebook account,Īnd notes that data may be shared with Facebook for “Social Media Features”. Their privacy policy includes a link to a Facebook page Intuit’s Mint application on iOS is sending data to without explicit permission.