I recently found out that the Spotify app on iOS bundles the facebook SDK which runs arbitrary Facebook code on startup, using the permissions given to the Spotify app, and makes a request to graph.facebook.com, in order to enable tracking.

I don't use Facebook, never linked my Spotify to a Facebook account and don't use any of the Facebook specify features in the app. So not being able to opt out of this makes me very uncomfortable.

Not even taking into account the recent downtime, I consider this problematic from a privacy perspective.

Are there plans to remove this hard dependency on the Facebook services in the coming months? Will there be an official statement on the matter?