Facebook Announces Anonymous Chat App 'Rooms'

[Mr Hands]

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Facebook.... anonymous... not integrated with Facebook... No personally identifiable information is required within chat rooms and users are identified by nicknames....it does store messages on Facebook's servers.

HA..HAHAHA..HAHAHAHA Does anyone actually buy into this BS?! It's FACEBOOK... what a crock of ****.

 

[AaronM5670]

Welcome to the 1990s!

 

[saberstrike]

I hope it's similar to the old AOL chatrooms. I actually miss those things.

I was thinking the same thing! Those were the days.

 

[Sonmi451]

I can't use it unless I give permission to access my camera roll. I don't think so....

 

[applewatchman]

No love for individual developers.

This app has been around for many months now. "Chattir" has been developed by a one man team. Of course, with the name Facebook attached to Rooms it will be extremely popular. Where is the love for individual developers? I do my best to try and support them, the work done by a small team with finite resources is much more impressive then the work done by a team with infinite time and money.

The link to Chattir on the App Store:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chattir/id889585119?ls=1&mt=8

 

[Medic311]

A/S/L ?

Let's start

LOL

 

[ugcop]

Facebook.... anonymous...

NOT

 

[BSDanalyst]

Going to fail just like paper and slingshot.

Facebook is trying really hard to be relevant but seems that it's decline isn't slowing down anytime soon.

 

[RedOrchestra]

Great, finally an anonymous Facebook-Chat. What could possibly go wrong!

Exactly.

 

[lk400]

Seems like going full circle. I used to (and still do sometimes) waste a lot of time in mIRC. What's the advantage of this now, 20 years on?

 

[Stephroll]

It'll be as popular as Paper , another useless US only app

 

[C DM]

Facebook.... anonymous...

NOT

How would it get anything from you if you aren't providing it any information?

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It'll be as popular as Paper , another useless US only app

Paper is pretty popular amongst those who actually tried and use it.

 

[Djentleman]

People here crack me up. As soon as the word access is mentioned, all hell breaks loose. First, you have to screen cap a QR code to enter a room and to select the screen cap you have to somehow get the app to identify the code.... Oh wait. Don't knock it til you've tried it.

All it is to me is boring. Nothing great or spectacularly new. So I'm giving it a miss. So much paranoia and fear-mongering.

 

[room237]

It's not. You create a room and invite people to it. You can't search for rooms or find a listing of existing rooms. It does give a short list of a few rooms.

Yup. And so now what? The rooms they give are travel, food, sneakers, and parkour. No, really. Parkour.

 

[yaxomoxay]

I stil use IRC on freenode. No need for FB.

 

[magnificentRuin]

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[DocFandan]

I believe there is

Apple killed off UDID tracking in apps. Are there other ways app makers can uniquely identify your iPhone and de-anonymize you?

You're right, but try installing a Google app such as Gmail. Log in. Now install Google Drive or another Google app, and when you open the app, it shows your username and let's you log in without a password. Which makes me think there's another method of identifying a device.

 

[thetechnologist]

Is there an official MacRumors room yet?

Use this invite in Rooms to see MacRoomers. Don't have Rooms? Get it at http://rooms.me.

I set one up for fun appropriately dubbed "MacRoomers" but I'm sure the forums here will always remained much preferred

 

[Pakaku]

Apple killed off UDID tracking in apps. Are there other ways app makers can uniquely identify your iPhone and de-anonymize you?

If Facebook can track the IP address of where you log in from, I wouldn't be surprised if they could compare the IP address from this app with the ones in their databases.

 

[GenesisST]

Apple killed off UDID tracking in apps. Are there other ways app makers can uniquely identify your iPhone and de-anonymize you?

There is the concept of app groups, where multiple apps can share settings. This is probably how your gmail login is seen by the youtube app and friends.

So the facebook and messenger app could store some info that this app could use. By "could", I mean "does"...

 

[WissMAN]

Just what we need. Another place people can act foolish through the protection of anonymity.

The internet should require your real name for posts.

 

[Belmont31R]

You're right, but try installing a Google app such as Gmail. Log in. Now install Google Drive or another Google app, and when you open the app, it shows your username and let's you log in without a password. Which makes me think there's another method of identifying a device.

Theres all kinds of way to ID people such as the IP address, device/browser ID, ect.



People are dumb if they think this is really anonymous.

 

[citi]

It'll be as popular as Paper , another useless US only app

Correct and I use it everyday. It's the best app Facebook makes plus it has messenger built inside it.

 

[reden]

This is as much anonymous as how the NSA says they wipe out American citizen's recorded calls and texts to protect privacy.

 

[KUguardgrl13]

I hope it's similar to the old AOL chatrooms. I actually miss those things.

Hah, I never went into the chat rooms, but I was a big AIMer as a preteen. If I can't relive my childhood bothering SmarterChild then it's useless to me