Peter Dolanjski

I shared my thoughts with @shiraovide.bsky.social on the malware-like level of tracking Meta has been engaged in on Android devices. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/06/meta-privacy-facebook-instagram

Which browsers and extensions are best for online privacy Want to find the best browser and/or extension for online privacy protection? DuckDuckGo breaks it down.

This highlights the lengths that data-hungry companies will go to in order to harvest user data, which is why it is important to use a browser that actively blocks these types of threats.

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Facebook/Instagram apps would silently listen on those ports, copy identifiers in real time, and link them to the user logged into the app, thereby allowing them to spy on your browsing habits, unchecked.

Meta was basically misusing protocols by having it's tracking scripts (embedded on a huge percentage of websites) blast out information about Chrome/other affected browser users' browsing history, along with unique identifiers to local ports on Android.

Meta Has Been Spying on Your Android Phone: Here's How to Stop It Incognito mode isn't going to protect you from this one.

Meta was just caught red-handed using a new tracking technique on Android to covertly spy on people's browsing history, even when in Incognito mode.

DuckDuckGo browser users were not affected, since we block Facebook/Meta trackers to start with.

www.makeuseof.com/meta-spying-...