"Zoom Removes Code That Sends Data to Facebook when you first open the app"
as per the article:
"Motherboard downloaded the update and verified that it does not send data to Facebook upon opening."
It's a bit naive to just assume that just because they don't send the data right away, that it's not getting sent at some point later on.
Since they removed the Facebook SDK entirely, whatever mechanism Facebook used to collect the info doesn’t exist any more. Instead of being able to collect the data at all times, wouldn’t FB only have a vector to do so through web login? At that point, I assume they could do fingerprinting in the browser to collect some info, but at least the cannot do it on the system level any more.
It still seems like this is a big improvement. Though, I imagine most folks will have at least one other app using the FB SDK, so it’s not like the root cause is fixed.
Specifically, SFSafariViewController does not share cookies or other data with Safari anymore. Some bad actors got caught with their hands in the cookie jar, literally, and out that sharing went.