it says: "Stop using the Chrome browser. Mozilla’s Firefox, the Brave browser and DuckDuckGo’s browser block many common methods of tracking you from site to site. Chrome, the most popular web browser, does not."
"Know, too, that even if you don’t have Meta apps on your phone, and even if you don’t use Facebook or Instagram at all, Meta might still harvest information on your activity across the web."
How the fuck is META harvesting data if you do NOT use their platform, software apps, and actively block their scripts on 3rd party websites? If the is some stealth bullshit going on, then META or the 3rd Party website is clearly violating privacy rights, or disclosure regulations.
Additionally read this quote from the article.
(DuckDuckGo and Brave largely did block the tactics, the researchers said.)
BRAVE Browswer completely blocks this bullshit UNLESS you add in some application or plug-in that contains the illegal string of code that META is paying programmers to utilize.
Used a loophole in (some) browser security; normally dynamic/scripted requests are only allowed if they're back to the original server, with cross-origin requests controlled tightly via policy (CORS).
In these cases the browser was allowing cross-origin requests if the destination was the local machine. Combine that with their own apps listening for these requests locally, and you have a data link. This is used to remove the online anonymity by connecting the web user with the app user, which may have profile/contacts access it can leak.
Normally a lax CORS policy may allow a remote destination if the origin server is local, no authentication is involved, and the server aligns with that policy proactively when queried. Big difference there, the locally-served web script is being trusted.
This was the other way around, insecure browser trusting remote script to make a local request.
So after years and years of shitty underhanded efforts to buttfuck them stoopid enough to use Zucky Zoidberg's crap, these idiots still manage to feign surprise, shock and outrage that it not only continues....but the Zoidberg crew is actively inventing new sexual positions?! LOL!
[ + ] beece
[ - ] beece 5 points 18 hoursJun 6, 2025 18:23:43 ago (+5/-0)*
it says: "Stop using the Chrome browser. Mozilla’s Firefox, the Brave browser and DuckDuckGo’s browser block many common methods of tracking you from site to site. Chrome, the most popular web browser, does not."
"Know, too, that even if you don’t have Meta apps on your phone, and even if you don’t use Facebook or Instagram at all, Meta might still harvest information on your activity across the web."
...more at link
[ + ] KosherHiveKicker
[ - ] KosherHiveKicker 4 points 17 hoursJun 6, 2025 18:35:29 ago (+4/-0)*
Additionally read this quote from the article.
BRAVE Browswer completely blocks this bullshit UNLESS you add in some application or plug-in that contains the illegal string of code that META is paying programmers to utilize.
[ + ] RollinDaGrassTyson
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[ + ] SithEmpire
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In these cases the browser was allowing cross-origin requests if the destination was the local machine. Combine that with their own apps listening for these requests locally, and you have a data link. This is used to remove the online anonymity by connecting the web user with the app user, which may have profile/contacts access it can leak.
Normally a lax CORS policy may allow a remote destination if the origin server is local, no authentication is involved, and the server aligns with that policy proactively when queried. Big difference there, the locally-served web script is being trusted.
This was the other way around, insecure browser trusting remote script to make a local request.
[ + ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey
[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 1 point 16 hoursJun 6, 2025 20:19:03 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] beece
[ - ] beece 1 point 15 hoursJun 6, 2025 20:41:59 ago (+1/-0)*
Hey, WTF is this? https://wiki.fuckoffgoogle.de/index.php?title=GoogleAlternatives
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