Article: Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers

Erel

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Interesting reading on how Meta and Yandex circumvented the browser privacy features. The bottom line is that the native apps were running in the background (I wonder whether they use a foreground service which should show an indicator in the system bar), listening on several TCP and UDP ports. The "pixel" - JavaScript that site owners embed for Facebook related features, sent data to the native apps. Including in private mode.
 
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