artocode404

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

now turned on in orbot

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/45333504

Tracking code that Meta and Russia-based Yandex embed into millions of websites is de-anonymizing visitors by abusing legitimate Internet protocols, causing Chrome and other browsers to surreptitiously send unique identifiers to native apps installed on a device, researchers have discovered. Google says it's investigating the abuse, which allows Meta and Yandex to convert ephemeral web identifiers into persistent mobile app user identities.

The covert tracking—implemented in the Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica trackers—allows Meta and Yandex to bypass core security and privacy protections provided by both the Android operating system and browsers that run on it. Android sandboxing, for instance, isolates processes to prevent them from interacting with the OS and any other app installed on the device, cutting off access to sensitive data or privileged system resources. Defenses such as state partitioning and storage partitioning, which are built into all major browsers, store site cookies and other data associated with a website in containers that are unique to every top-level website domain to ensure they're off-limits for every other site.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 hours ago (9 children)

Seems like it's transferred through a cookie and javascript, so in theory you can block it with ublock or noscript and the like, but a sure way to block is to not have meta apps installed on your phone (or not signed in).

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Why is it ALWAYS the sports companies? Who cares about somebody illegally watching grown men try to prove they're better than other grown men that much 🙄

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What in the world is wrong with the top two?! They would be deliceous!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

nice interrobang

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Well if you'd like to have a discussion about it please tell the class! Actual discussions should not violate the guidelines here... Unless you don't want a discussion, but rather a hate fest? But if not and you actually want to legit discussion, we'd all love to hear it I'm sure! (Sorry if this comes off a bit sarcastic, but it's not really meant to be taken sarcastically, and if you actually are in good faith then I'm sure you have no problem answering this question...)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

I've been in the community for a while and somehow haven't heard the term avian, thx for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I apologize that apparently Lemmy/Reddit people do not have enough self-awareness to accept good criticism, especially if it was just automatically generated and have downloaded that to oblivion. Though I don't really think you should respond to comments with a chatGPT link, not exactly helpful. Comes off a tad bit AI Bro...

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I personally have never actually used Manjaro on my own computers, but my friend had one for the longest time and had way more bugs and issues in it than I have had from my vanilla Arch, and I update almost daily. I've been using this install for about a year now and only reinstalled my previous copy of Arch because I wanted to completely clear my SSD, and I was using it for the two years before that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

They need a name, what do we call them??!

 

I would like to get an invite (for free) to a private tracker, where could I go to get such an invite? Thanks in advance!

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