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Holy shit, that should be illegal. I say should because I know there's no way that it currently is.
Microsoft do the same with Windows and as far as I know, they haven't got fined for it.
Do you have a source for that or you just making it up?
Its supposedly to learn typing habits. Heres how you turn it off.
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/microsoft-windows-10-keylogger-enabled-default-heres-disable/
It's pretty hard to prove what anyone is doing with closed source code.
Could be batched, could be encrypted, could be bundled with other data etc etc
Decompilers: Are we a joke to you?
I'd still agree with his statement. Subset of people who could even make the determination in available source code is small compared to total users, now reduce that set to people competent in reverse engineering. "pretty hard" is not a bad description imo
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.
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.
You'd be surprised at how shit Chrome's autoupdate is.
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.
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.
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.
“Don’t use in-app web browsers”
Somebody else is already pointed out that it's already been debunked so no it wasn't happening
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.
I was responding to your claim of “not happening, impossible” with proof of it being possible, and actually fairly easy to implement.
But it's not another website, it would be the web browser within the Facebook app, which could absolutely do that.
Except this is already being debunked see above
Except that this this has been debunked see below
Edit: the point I'm hopefully making is that you're just kinda saying stuff and not even bothering to post a source.