You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.

“Meta devised an ingenious system (“localhost tracking”) that bypassed Android’s sandbox protections to identify you while browsing on your mobile phone — even if you used a VPN, the browser’s incognito mode, and refused or deleted cookies in every session.”

  • mle@feddit.org
    2·
    8 days ago

    I think this would warrant to get all websites using the facebook pixel on safe browsing lists and AV databases as infected with malware.

    Maybe then the pressure on meta would be big enough to stop this shit, if all websites stopped to not use that anymore.

    Btw, does anyone know if the localhost tracking is implemented in Whatsapp as well, or just FB and Instagram?

    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
      0·
      7 days ago

      WhatsApp is owned by Meta, so you should expect that they will do this soon enough if they aren’t doing it already.

      • TheFriar@lemm.ee
        1·
        7 days ago

        I would bet a ton of money on WhatsApp being a spy machine in a way people don’t know yet. Their bullshit of end to end encryption and privacy while being a free app is undoubtedly some ruse to squeeze data out of people. There isn’t a fucking doubt in my mind.

        Facebook is owning and operating a free and private messaging service? To what end? Yeah, nah. Not fuckin buying it.