Stop trying to contact Facebook when paid and ad-free!
Please, please, please stop trying to reach out to Facebook's ad and data gathering servers (edge-star-shv-01-lga3.facebook.com) when the user has paid for and chooses to remain ad-free.
What business does Textra have trying to talk to Facebook anyway?
My device has ABSOLUTELY ZERO Facebook apps, services or social connections onboard, and Textra attempts to reach out to Facebook (for what?!) every 3 minutes, around the clock.
Not only does this prevent the device's CPU from powering down and entering deep sleep states, unnecessarily draining the battery, but it also opens up potential security issues with data over-reach.
The attempts to reach this set of facebook hosts is clearly seen in the firewall logs.
Please give me some insight into why this is necessary.
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According to the following KB article, the attempts to query Facebook are for analytics gathering of device and Textra version details.
If that were true, it would only need to this once, at install time. Why does it continue to reach out to Facebook every 3 minutes, 24x7?
Something doesn't add up.