Ally (bank)mobile app fails without connection to graph.facebook.com - eviltoast

Not sure if this is a good place for this post or not, but here goes.

I reject outbound connections to meta domains at the firewall. I noticed this banking app refuses to prompt for login credentials unless I am on mobile or a public WiFi network. I watched my FW logs and noticed many rejected connections to graph[.]facebook[.]com.

I contacted their support team, but they denied the connection was their app. I shared the screenshot on this post and they closed my case without comment.

I emailed the address on the Google play store and they also denied the connection was their app. I shared the screenshot and they asked if I downloaded the app from the play store, implying the official app doesn’t do this, but of course it does.They closed my case without proper resolution as well.

Just thought I’d share this here so people know that some banks make direct connections to Facebook to share analytics, without your knowledge or informed consent, and they lie about it when called on it.

  • darthfabulous42069@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’d bet you bottom dollar Ally is selling their customers’ financial information to Meta, and this is a manifestation of that.

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      1 year ago

      Might not even be selling it, could just be an arrangement to use some sort of “sign in with facebook” service or even advertise on facebook marketplace/adverts

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        1 year ago

        So you see, Your Honour, we didn’t sell Facebook any data - we just sold Facebook the ability to harvest our users data directly.