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Are they assigning blame to a single individual? Because I'm pretty sure 95% of my Facebook and Instagram friends have "connected their contacts" at some point. I've had this huge banner on my Instagram profile page for over a year now. It takes up over 50% of the screen and shows up every time I press the button to go to my page:

https://i.imgur.com/PLvohTH.jpg

I've never clicked it and never will, but I don't doubt that many of my friends have just to get it to go away. That's why I only give out my Google Voice number to people and only use my real phone number when it's strictly necessary.

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A person adding their contact list isn’t “ad targeting.” Some companies literally upload email contact lists to Facebook and pay for ads that will be shown to anyone on that list that also has a Facebook account.

It's worth noting that they hash their email lists and upload those. They are never given access to a list of the list of people on facebook who share those addresses.

There should be an App Store rule that you can only ask for a permission once, if the user declines you can't keep pestering for it unless they've actually invoked an action that requires the permission.

On iOS, apps can only activate the system dialog for permissions once for each individual permission (camera, microphone, contacts, etc.)

So the strategy to do is to say yes for the app to ask permission and when the system dialog shows up you can decline. If you ignore or say no to the app dialog they can keep pestering you, but once you have declined on the system dialog there's not much the app can do.

The apps have to instruct you to go into the app settings if you want to activate permissions, not a lot of apps are doing this since it's quite an involved process.

It's not such an involved process anymore as apps can link people directly to the submenu within settings to modify the permissions of the said app.

We need a Stack Overflow for working solutions (like this one) to battle monopoly company bullying

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