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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.

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers - Ars Technica in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (11 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).

Amazon Fire Sticks enable “billions of dollars” worth of streaming piracy in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 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 🙄

rule in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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

Maybe someday I'll set it to a rainbow background, just to throw em off a bit in c/[email protected]

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

nice interrobang

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Not a request for invites, but help finding a site for them (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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!