You may come across various websites or links on social media platforms. When you enter a website or link you see on the platform, it does not direct you to the browser you are using. Instead of to in-app browser is directing. According to the alleged Facebook and InstagramThanks to the in-app browser, it follows its users. Here are the details!
Meta uses Javascript code to track movements
Researcher Felix KrauseAccording to ”, Facebook and Instagram are used to track your movements on the sites you visit. javascript is using the code. The researcher discovered that this code allows Meta to potentially track you on websites.
Krause sums it up as follows: “The Instagram app injects tracking code into every website displayed, including when clicking on ads. All user interactions such as every button and link touched; text selections, screenshots, addresses and credit card numbers can thus be viewed.”
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Krause, Instagram and Facebook in the research iOS focused on versions. However, the codes on Android It turned out to be working too. In this case, it provides app permissions and comprehensive privacy control. Apple’s iOS 15.4which he brought in Application Tracking Transparency (ATT) violation may occur.
The tracking code by meta to ATT preferences conforms accordingly. A spokesperson made a statement in response to the claim. “The code allows us to collect user data before using it for targeted advertising or measurement purposes. We do not add any pixels. The code is injected so that we can collect the events of the return from the pixels. We ask for user consent to save payment information for autofill for in-app purchases made via browser.”
Also, Krause noted that Facebook does not necessarily use Javascript injection to collect sensitive data. However, applications Safari, Chrome or Firefox It wouldn’t be possible to inject the code if it opened the user’s preferred browser, such as
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