A Boring Dystopia

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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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[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

and they're running out of advertisers to sell that data to so they're selling it to governments instead

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

instead

This implies it was ever not for sale to governments.

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago

i just meant who's their primary customer, really. advertisers aren't fully divested of surveillance capitalism, obviously, but the fact remains there's been a shift

[–] xylol@leminal.space 2 points 1 day ago

They don't sell the data, the data is their whole business. They use the data to filter people and give their customers a list of targets depending on their customers goals