The big Facebook crash of 2020 and the problem of third-party SDK creep

(rambo.codes)

Even if you don’t sign in with Facebook in a particular app, the app will run Facebook’s code in the background just for having the SDK included. You don’t need a Facebook account for it to track you either, they can track people very well without one.

Fact is, you can't escape Facebook.

Hence this morning when a lot of mainstream apps like Spotify and Pinterest crashed due to the SDK