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Meta Found a New Way to Track Android Users Covertly via Facebook & Instagram (cybersecuritynews.com)

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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] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 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] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The company should have been modified in the historical record as a terrorist organization supported by treasonous actors, completely disbanded, cannibalized and Mark Zuckerberg should have been put to death. along with all the enablers like Nancy Pelosi. It's such a big fucking iceberg that it's hard to call a spade a spade, but I call a spade a spade. I would take the figure head and nail it on a cross. I would chop off its head and put it on a spear for all to see. Facebook has enabled genocide and spread lies that created chaos inside of communities. I would create laws where aglorythms should be open sourced with a switch that could be turned off. And if there's any fuckery, you either get your balls or your tits chopped off and imprisoned in a dark room @100°f for the rest of your fucking life.