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   Viss (viss@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jun-2025 09:34:22 JST Viss

   so this local mess thing is a pretty huge deal.

   also, if youve ever wondered "how the fuck does instagram know this shit, are they listening to me?!"

   well.. yes, they are (https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-partner-phones-listening-microphone)

   but they, until the 3rd of this month, were playing hot potato with their tracking pixels that live on millions of sites, your browser, and fb/ig apps on your phone

   https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-partner-phones-listening-microphone

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     Viss (viss@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jun-2025 12:27:00 JST Viss

     in reply to

     the tl:dr is basically this:

     - fb/ig open local ports on your phone
     - your mobile browser hits a site, and facebooks javascript sends cookie data to "localhost:<that port>", so now fb/ig have data on the site you just visited

     incognito mode doesnt matter, cuz you just outed yourself to them.

     vpns dont matter, because both actions are 'on your device', using local sockets.

     you cant trust facebook.