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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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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Ok, this has got to stop, soon we'll need separate sound isolated anechoic chambers containing dedicated burner devices for use with specific services online, set up so that we can only interact with them wearing hazmat gear.

The tech giants quest for ever more data about us needs to stop, and the executives who oversee them needs to see consequences beyond the operating budget increasing continously.

We have been told that individually targeted ads are not cost effective, that the tech giants just want to categorize their users in broad categories, yet the tech giants keep trying to collect more and more.

And with all of this information collected on us, we still gets shitty advertising, completely miss targeted.

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 5 points 1 day ago (3 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

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