PieFed.caMeta could track your browser sessions even in incognito and link them with your real identity
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Meta devised an ingenious system (âlocalhost trackingâ) that bypassed Androidâs sandbox protections to identify you while browsing on your mobile phone â even if you used a VPN, the browserâs incognito mode, and refused or deleted cookies in every session.
This is the process through which Meta (Facebook/Instagram) managed to link what you do in your browser (for example, visiting a news site or an online store) with your real identity (your Facebook or Instagram account), even if you never logged into your account through the browser or anything like that.
Meta accomplishes this through two invisible channels that exchange information:
(i) The Facebook or Instagram app running in the background on your phone, even when youâre not using it.
(ii) Metaâs tracking scripts (the now-pulled illegal brainchild uncovered last week), which operate inside your mobile web browser.
Yeah but if the script which initiates the connection to the local server is blocked there's no connection to intercept in the first place.