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A sophisticated tracking method employed by Meta (Facebook) and Yandex that potentially affected billions of Android users through covert web-to-app communications via localhost sockets.

The technique allowed native Android apps, including Facebook and Instagram, to silently receive browser metadata, cookies, and commands from Meta Pixel scripts embedded on thousands of websites, effectively linking mobile browsing sessions to user identities and bypassing standard privacy protections.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Facebook (fuck their renaming) should be spilt into half a dozen different companies. Not going to happen in current shambolic regime in USA though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They practically control personal communications in majority of the world and none of the governments seem to care.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Our government officials work for the corporate sector because government has been captured by corporations. So most plebs, you know, still worship the sun. And you know, the types like Nancy Pelosi definitely care, but what they care about is their stock portfolio. Not doing what we perceive as their jobs. But it's kind of interesting seeing how Europe has lost faith in the Yankee Empire and is slowly becoming more self-reliant and moving away from US companies. Which in turn, if we don't become completely like North Korea, and we can access the internet outside of the usa, it gives us the opportunity to possibly use some decent software, which makes me excited. And to be honest, I use a lot of software that's created by Europeans. So, it's kind of already like that. But then it'll just get better hopefully.

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