Prevent apps accessing your Facebook account

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Ever wondered just how many apps have access to your social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter? Well, a website calledmypermissions.org will highlight what apps have access to Facebook and others too as well as highlighting what permissions they have.

mypermissions.org is a free app permission management tool which can be used from their website or from a mobile app. It automatically scans your app permissions on 12 websites (see below) as well as cleaning your app permissions in one click. You also receive alerts when apps gain access to your private information. mypermissions DOES NOT require (nor does it capture/store) your login credentials, although it does request a browser session to connect to the relevant website when using the mobile app.

The 12 websites that mypermissions reviews for you are: Facebook; Twitter; Google+; Yahoo!; LinkedIn; Dropbox; Instagram; Foursquare; Microsoft Live; Aol.; Flickr and Familio (only on iOS and Amazon mobile apps). Each website will have a webpage that manages their own apps and that of third-party apps (this page is sometimes referred to as ‘Authorized Apps) access to your account profile data. Most of these pages are difficult to find, so this app makes reviewing permissions very simple.

You can use mypermissions in the following ways:

• Chrome Extension – this extension will have access to your data on all the websites and access your tabs and browsing activities. As far as we can tell it only does this for the websites listed on the website. You can disable or delete this extension at any time by clicking the Menu icon > Tools > Extensions

Or you might want to download the app to use on iOS or Android:

• Google Play Store Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mypermissions.mypermissions – press and hold this link then tap ‘Open With Play Store App’ to download from Google Play Store

For the benefit of my readers, I start with the Chrome extension. So how does this permissions management website work? If you are logged into say Facebook it will present you with apps that have access to Post in your name; Access your info; Know your location; Access your inbox or contacts; Access your info 24/7 and Access your media & files. This data is presented within the website. When you click the website logo/icon for another website (see below), then you will be taken to that website to login and that website will take you to a page to present you with the apps that have access to your data. This is very useful as it is difficult to find this data from Google Search.

Note: I had Facebook, Twitter and Google+ open (and logged in) on my Chrome tabs, however the mypermissions website only picked up the Facebook data. As it was I surprised to see I had 15 apps accessing more than 60 permissions on my Facebook profile!

I’ve also tested the Android and iOS app. What I did notice was that the Android app only presents you with 9 websites to check rather than the 11 on the website. Microsoft Live and Aol are missing. The iOS app presents you with all the 12 websites mentioned above. I didn’t notice any other differences to the Chrome extension. If you click on any icon i.e. Facebook you will of course be taken to a browser login rather than the app (if you are logged in) and the mypermissions app will not attempt to open the app, which reassured me. After all I want the control!

Disable freeze remove Android bloatware

Carriers (mobile networks) and manufacturers (and some third-party developers) often include pre-installed apps, but in most instances these apps offer little or no benefit to you or your Android device. In fact in most instances they end up being useless. These pre-installed apps generally clutter your system and in some instances degrade the performance of your mobile device i.e. draining your battery for example.

These pre-installed apps are referred to as ‘bloatware’. Bloatware apps are usually installed to encourage you to use a manufacturers app, but most non-tech users don’t even use these apps, let alone know they are there. If they did, they would realise they were useless in the most part. Note:Almost all stock configurations of Android come loaded with bloatware, but it you have a Nexus, you are lucky because these devices do not.

Freezing and or removing Android bloatware

So how do you go about disabling/freezing the pre-installed bloatware? In many instances users will simple “freeze” the app rather than risk uninstalling, which might cause a system issue i.e. bricking or some other type of instability. When you uninstall an app , the app is completely removed from for device, but the pre-installed apps are not (in most instances) available on the Play Store, if you decided you needed them again.

Therefore, freezing an app is seen as a safer alternative. Freezing an app will disable that app and it will not appear to be functioning nor will it take up any background resource (maybe Android should take a leaf out of BlackBerry’s hat, where BB10 only allows app in the background if that app uses Active Frames). Freezing an app on Android for example is an instant process, but you do have the option to unfreeze that app if you encounter instability issues. However, read on…..

Note: If you decide to uninstall an app, it’s important that you first freeze an app to ensure you don’t drink your device.

However, contrary to what I’ve read on forums, its difficult to impossible to disable or freeze bloatware on Android 4.0 upwards (from Ice Cream Sandwich) without root access. Some comments suggest you can disable apps in ICS, but I can tell you if you are running 4.0 upwards on say a Samsung Galaxy S3, you will be unable to disable most apps from Settings > Applications Manager. However there is a simple work around for removing bloatware without root access! I use a recovery-flashable ZIP called Bloatkill than can remove the APK from the Android system/app partition without root access.

If you have a stock ROM, this means the original operating system (and haven’t installed a modified version), then Bloatkill will work for you without any modifications. Before moving any apps, make sure you do understand what you are removing, as I cannot be held responsible for any problems you might encounter!

Firstly, you will need your PC

• Download Bloatkill.zip file – save to your PC desktop
• Open the file with an archive tool i.e. WinRAR
• Go to META-INF\com\google\android\ and extract the file “updater-script” to your PC desktop
• Open “updater-script” with your PC text editor (Notepad) ready for editing
• You will now see a list of all the APKs that will be removed upon running the script. You can modify this list and save the file again using Notepad. Note the bold parts as these are important stock system files
• Move the “updater -script” back into the Bloatkill.zip archive. This will replace the original copy with your copy

• Connect your Android device to your PC using a USB cable
• Copy the Bloatkill.zip file from your desktop onto your Android SD card* (not in any folder) and reboot in recovery mode. Shut down and boot the device while holding the volume up, home button and power button at the same time to enter recovery mode
• Select “apply ZIP from SD card” and select Bloatkill.zip and select “Yes”. The script will execute. Once this is done you will need to reboot
• The apps you listed in “updater-script” will now have been removed

*Use My Files > All files > extSdCard to locate/verify the zip file location and file integrity (you can also use any 3rd-party file manager from the Play Store).

Android allows you to reboot the device in recovery or fastboot modes.