[Mac_Daddy]

Curious if I do all my social media engagements via a browser as oppose to having the app (with various settings turned off or on) if it's more private. With facebook via browser for example I know I am only giving access to my device's stored files on a per need basis and not all the time. Too via browser I do not need to give access to my iPhone's contact list. I do know iPhone has a number of settings that can be turned off for privacy, do not know if this makes the social media apps nonfunctional unless I do enable certain settings. At any rate just recently got an iPhone for the first time and I'm wanting to minimize tracking and invasion of privacy while still wanting access to social media apps. Just wondering if I should avoid social media apps altogether or if using apps + certain settings is the same thing.

 

[Mac_Daddy]

So iOS gives people the ability to turn off tracking for apps and perhaps some other opt out features. So out of that I wonder if it's the same as if I went on social media via browser. I know on android some apps want access to contacts, photos, friend's lists, camera, location so on. Some of these apps will not even work without giving all these permissions. Via browser I can choose what and what not to share at any given moment, though of course facebook has access to my instagram as it's all part of the same company. One of the reasons I moved to iPhone is wanting to get out of the Google eco-system where I'm tracked and data mined in so many ways all the time. Not sure if for example I install the facebook app on my iPhone if I have to give access to data on my iPhone that I don't want to give else the app is useless.