Tekniquelly correct on Nostr: Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers > both ...
Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/headline-to-come/> both Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica are performing a “weird protocol misuse” to gain unvetted access that Android provides to localhost ports on the 127.0.0.1 IP address.
🎵Burn it to the ground🎵
Meta and Yandex for this creepy, likely illegal privacy violation, and Android’s Chrome for letting browser tabs talk to each other through localhost networking without requesting access.
Published at
2025-06-03 13:41:45 UTCEvent JSON
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