Facebook and Instagram apps can track users via their in-app browsers – 24HTECH.ASIA


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Facebook and Instagram apps can track users via their in-app browsers – 24HTECH.ASIA Benoit Tessier / reuters If you visit a website you see on Facebook and Instagram, you’ve likely noticed that you’re not redirected to your browser of choice but rather a custom in-app browser. It turns out that those browsers inject javascript code into each website visited, allowing parent Meta to potentially track you across websites, researcher Felix Krause has discovered. “The Instagram app injects their tracking code into every website shown, including when clicking on ads, enabling them [to] monitor all user interactions, like every button and...