We disclose a novel tracking method by Meta and Yandex potentially affecting billions of Android users. We found that native Android apps—including Facebook, Instagram, and several Yandex apps including Maps and Browser—silently listen on fixed local ports for tracking purposes.
Never, ever install meta apps on your devices people! If you have to use them, do it via browser.
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treadful @lemmy.zip - 6mon
📢 UPDATE: As of June 3rd 7:45 CEST, Meta/Facebook Pixel script is no longer sending any packets or requests to localhost. The code responsible for sending the _fbp cookie has been almost completely removed. Yandex has also stopped the practice we describe below.
I'm a little curious why they removed it. These guys are not motivated by shame.
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db0 - 6mon
Google wants to claim it protects its users in chrome and this was bypassing it, so they didn't want to make Google and Apple angry
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ArcaneSlime @lemmy.dbzer0.com - 6mon
As if I ever would! Went through extra effort and gave up my fucking 3.5mm to install graphene and get away from those losers! Gonna have to sneak it into VLC to catch me slipping!
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stoy @lemmy.zip - 6mon
Ok, this has got to stop, soon we'll need separate sound isolated anechoic chambers containing dedicated burner devices for use with specific services online, set up so that we can only interact with them wearing hazmat gear.
The tech giants quest for ever more data about us needs to stop, and the executives who oversee them needs to see consequences beyond the operating budget increasing continously.
We have been told that individually targeted ads are not cost effective, that the tech giants just want to categorize their users in broad categories, yet the tech giants keep trying to collect more and more.
And with all of this information collected on us, we still gets shitty advertising, completely miss targeted.
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The Cuuuuube - 6mon
and they're running out of advertisers to sell that data to so they're selling it to governments instead
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Miles O'Brien - 6mon
instead
This implies it was ever not for sale to governments.
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The Cuuuuube - 6mon
i just meant who's their primary customer, really. advertisers aren't fully divested of surveillance capitalism, obviously, but the fact remains there's been a shift
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xylol @leminal.space - 6mon
They don't sell the data, the data is their whole business. They use the data to filter people and give their customers a list of targets depending on their customers goals
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LumpyPancakes - 6mon
So this just sent me on a learning trip to see if there's a way to sandbox apps. Turns out there's an easy app on the play store called 'Island' which, on most devices, lets you install apps as a second 'sandboxed' user.
After a few minutes of playing, it seems to work well.
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xzot746 @sh.itjust.works - 6mon
I was recently thinking if it is possible to have a Docker like container on phones for this very reason.
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pinball_wizard @lemmy.zip - 6mon
If this continues to escalate, it would be a lot simpler to put Zuckerberg in a private secure cell, rather than every app each of us use.
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Zier - 6mon
Is there an article connected to this information???
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ragingHungryPanda @lemmy.zip - 6mon
I edited the link bc I tried to cross post, but the original was removed. So in case it didn't update, here's the link.
ragingHungryPanda in aboringdystopia
The covert method Meta uses to track mobile browsing without consent — even in incognito mode or with a VPN
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-06-03/the-covert-method-meta-uses-to-track-mobile-browsing-without-consent-even-in-incognito-mode-or-with-a-vpn.htmlHow meta bypasses your phone's browser security to track you.
From the linked source
Never, ever install meta apps on your devices people! If you have to use them, do it via browser.
I'm a little curious why they removed it. These guys are not motivated by shame.
Google wants to claim it protects its users in chrome and this was bypassing it, so they didn't want to make Google and Apple angry
As if I ever would! Went through extra effort and gave up my fucking 3.5mm to install graphene and get away from those losers! Gonna have to sneak it into VLC to catch me slipping!
Ok, this has got to stop, soon we'll need separate sound isolated anechoic chambers containing dedicated burner devices for use with specific services online, set up so that we can only interact with them wearing hazmat gear.
The tech giants quest for ever more data about us needs to stop, and the executives who oversee them needs to see consequences beyond the operating budget increasing continously.
We have been told that individually targeted ads are not cost effective, that the tech giants just want to categorize their users in broad categories, yet the tech giants keep trying to collect more and more.
And with all of this information collected on us, we still gets shitty advertising, completely miss targeted.
and they're running out of advertisers to sell that data to so they're selling it to governments instead
This implies it was ever not for sale to governments.
i just meant who's their primary customer, really. advertisers aren't fully divested of surveillance capitalism, obviously, but the fact remains there's been a shift
They don't sell the data, the data is their whole business. They use the data to filter people and give their customers a list of targets depending on their customers goals
So this just sent me on a learning trip to see if there's a way to sandbox apps. Turns out there's an easy app on the play store called 'Island' which, on most devices, lets you install apps as a second 'sandboxed' user.
After a few minutes of playing, it seems to work well.
I was recently thinking if it is possible to have a Docker like container on phones for this very reason.
If this continues to escalate, it would be a lot simpler to put Zuckerberg in a private secure cell, rather than every app each of us use.
Is there an article connected to this information???
I edited the link bc I tried to cross post, but the original was removed. So in case it didn't update, here's the link.
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-06-03/the-covert-method-meta-uses-to-track-mobile-browsing-without-consent-even-in-incognito-mode-or-with-a-vpn.html
Oh thanks, got it now.
in bad country,