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I wasn’t in a Walmart, I was in a thrift store. I said out loud “I can find this cheaper at Walmart” and it happened to be a bottle of Curve in my hand. 4 hours later Facebook was showing me a Walmart ad for the exact same fragrance, a 15+ year old scent I never googled or searched anywhere on my device. Not the first time I’ve experienced that happening either.
But they track you across devices. Did you ever search on another device? Have you ever hovered your pointer over the image or listing on an online store? Have you ever shown interest in that product on your device? There’s so much more to it, but the main thing is priming. If you’re already the paranoid type and I say "ever notice how many blue cars are following you and most of the drivers are government agents?" then it’s likely that you'll suddenly start to take note of blue cars, and possibly believe the occupants are after you.

There’s an easy solve to this: don’t use Facebook.
 
The Facebook (Beta) list seems to block some apple functionality. So far I’ve noticed that search in maps and find my friends do not work with the Facebook list enabled.

It would be great to see list of the blocks that have been triggered rather than just a single count. That would also help track down which entries in the Facebook list are causing a problem.

It works for me no problem. And I can use find friends and search maps.

I did email the developer and suggest a list of what’s blocked. Totally agree there! Hope it comes out with it soon!
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... and it is better than NordVPN why????
It’s not a VPN. Completely different. Although, they said they’d add VPN functionality later for a price. This works fine for me, though.
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No, not creepy. Coincidence. You’re primed to notice it. That’s a feature of all humans—so common and universal, in fact, that magicians the world over have been exploiting it for centuries. Could it also be a little technology? Sure, if you have location services on and you allow whatever particular app to track you it may know what kind of store you’re in and target those ads. But the rest is probably priming.
I have to disagree with you. But that’s it. You have your mind made up that you are never tracked anywhere, apparently. No need to respond, either. I’ve seen your back and forth already. Lol. Quiet comical.
 
I have to disagree with you. But that’s it. You have your mind made up that you are never tracked anywhere, apparently. No need to respond, either. I’ve seen your back and forth already. Lol. Quiet comical.
How is that "apparent"? I’ve given examples of tracking, and spoken of cross-device tracking, location tracking, etc. You must not be paying attention.
 
This seems to have locked all app updates from the store on iOS13 beta. Without deativating it, I couldn't get a single update to download.
 
I know there is nothing older than yesterday’s news but today’s update made things much better for me. I’m running it on an SE and 6th gen iPad with the current iOS 13 public beta on each.

Thanks to the developers for building this app! If it stays free and open source long term it can be a game changer.
 
This app is pretty good. With only Facebook Inc. Beta disabled, everything works pretty normal on my iPhone. App updates, weather location, Find My, and it blocks ads in apps such as Slickdeals, Amazon, and EBay!!!
 
I just installed Lockdown and indeed only one VPN can run at a time on my iPhone. My 1.1.1.1 is now turned off. Are you sure both are running? Settings —> General —> VPN. Is only one checked?

Actually, you’re right. Only one at a time. I thought they were both working simultaneously but they are not. I am using “Confirmed VPN” and whenever I open the Confirmed VPN application it deactivates “Lockdown”. I will just switch to lockdown when they add VPN.
 
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I decided it wasn't worth the risk of using this app. But good luck to all who do!

I'd be interested to learn how you came to that conclusion.

I've briefly scanned the source code (https://github.com/confirmedcode/lockdown-ios), and while I'm no developer.. I do have some networking knowledge and it appears to be sending all the blocked traffic to a black hole (private class IP address that is not routed on the internet)
 
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I think the dev has been active on this thread....so I have a feature request.

Can we see what app/service/system has requested the connection?

I’m seeing a LOT of graph.facebook.com requests. While I’m not even using my device - I was asleep when the attached requests were made. I don’t have the Facebook App installed, so it’s not that.
 

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It was blocking them before this last update that screwed everything up. They must have broken something again, as it isn’t blocking for me either.

I see, it's strange as I see in "View Block Log" that there are several trackers and addresses related to facebook being blocked but in fact they aren't. I wonder what they stuffed up. Anyhow, when it works it's a great App.
 
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