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Heads up. Facebook keylogs your passwords. (midwest.social)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 48 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

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

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  • [+] -15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Do you have a source for that or you just making it up?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's pretty hard to prove what anyone is doing with closed source code.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Multiple. I understand that many of you won't believe or just don't know about Microsoft's spying, but that's the reality. It can happen that I can have wrong with certain things (I'm only human, remember that), but Microsoft spying on you is the fact of why I now using Linux as my main operating system since 2015/2016.

    There is a lot more proof out there, but I can't think straight to be able to find them. So if you want to dig some more, by all means, do it.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    To this day I don't know what or why Google Chrome was using up all the processing power on my laptop while it was installed. As soon as I deleted Chrome, my 12gb laptop ran fine again.

    It probably wasn't keylogging but it was probably not updating itself 24/7 either.

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  • [+] -22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    There's also no way that it's happening. You can't key log with JavaScript. There's something called cross domain policies or xDomainPolicy which prevent certain types of code being run on one website by a different website.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Cross domain policies are enforced by the browser. If you’re using a third party app, guess what you’re using as a browser.

    Want an easy example of this? Userscrips on Firefox. Install GreaseMonkey, and you can run whatever the hell you want on any webpage. Keylogging, mouse movements, clicks and navigations. Not hard, and impossible to really stop from the site itself, because no matter what you tell the browser to do, you essentially have to just hope the browser follows through.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you’re using a third party app, guess what you’re using as a browser.

    Yes if you are inside Facebook and while inside Facebook click a link to go somewhere else you are still in Facebook and they will keylog everything.

    This is presented as if Facebook/Toktok can keylog everything.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Somebody else is already pointed out that it's already been debunked so no it wasn't happening

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    And somebody else pointed out that that was debunked so yes it's happening

    Edit: the point I'm hopefully making is that you're just kinda saying stuff and not even bothering to post a source.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    But it's not another website, it would be the web browser within the Facebook app, which could absolutely do that.

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