A Boring Dystopia

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The world we live in isn't just dystopic, it isn't just stupid, trying to describe all the ways it sucks just makes for a really boring story.

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The covert method Meta uses to track mobile browsing without consent — even in incognito mode or with a VPN (english.elpais.com)

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How meta bypasses your phone's browser security to track you.

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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

📢 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.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

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