The world we live in isn't just dystopic, it isn't just stupid, trying to describe all the ways it sucks just makes for a really boring story.
From the linked source
We disclose a novel tracking method by Meta and Yandex potentially affecting billions of Android users. We found that native Android apps—including Facebook, Instagram, and several Yandex apps including Maps and Browser—silently listen on fixed local ports for tracking purposes.
Never, ever install meta apps on your devices people! If you have to use them, do it via browser.
📢 UPDATE: As of June 3rd 7:45 CEST, Meta/Facebook Pixel script is no longer sending any packets or requests to localhost. The code responsible for sending the _fbp cookie has been almost completely removed. Yandex has also stopped the practice we describe below.
I'm a little curious why they removed it. These guys are not motivated by shame.
Google wants to claim it protects its users in chrome and this was bypassing it, so they didn't want to make Google and Apple angry
As if I ever would! Went through extra effort and gave up my fucking 3.5mm to install graphene and get away from those losers! Gonna have to sneak it into VLC to catch me slipping!
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.
and they're running out of advertisers to sell that data to so they're selling it to governments instead
instead
This implies it was ever not for sale to governments.
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
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
If this continues to escalate, it would be a lot simpler to put Zuckerberg in a private secure cell, rather than every app each of us use.
So this just sent me on a learning trip to see if there's a way to sandbox apps. Turns out there's an easy app on the play store called 'Island' which, on most devices, lets you install apps as a second 'sandboxed' user.
After a few minutes of playing, it seems to work well.
I was recently thinking if it is possible to have a Docker like container on phones for this very reason.
Is there an article connected to this information???
I edited the link bc I tried to cross post, but the original was removed. So in case it didn't update, here's the link.
Oh thanks, got it now.
in bad country,