Project Ghostbusters: Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat (gizmodo.com)
from pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.ml on 26 Mar 2024 20:03
https://sh.itjust.works/post/16835155

Thus, Project Ghostbusters was born. It’s Meta’s in-house wiretapping tool to spy on data analytics from Snapchat starting in 2016, later used on YouTube and Amazon. This involved creating “kits” that can be installed on iOS and Android devices, to intercept traffic for certain apps, according to the filings. This was described as a “man-in-the-middle” approach to get data on Facebook’s rivals, but users of Onavo were the “men in the middle.”

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GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 26 Mar 2024 20:14 next collapse

Isn’t that enough to throw all of their staff to the jail for an organized group crime? Oh of course they’re rich. Alright then nothing to see

helenslunch@feddit.nl on 27 Mar 2024 03:06 next collapse

Yeah this is absolutely why zero Meta shit is allowed to live on my phone.

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works on 27 Mar 2024 03:11 collapse

They can get your info in other ways if you visit sites that have links to meta products on your phone. You probably know that though if you don’t have them on your phone, this is for others that don’t know.

delirious_owl@discuss.online on 27 Mar 2024 15:04 collapse

Not if you isolate them to a single VM thats only ever used for Meta products

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works on 27 Mar 2024 15:26 collapse

VM?

delirious_owl@discuss.online on 27 Mar 2024 16:14 collapse

Virtual Machine

grant@toast.ooo on 27 Mar 2024 05:58 collapse

That site is so chalked full chock-full of ads that it made my phone incredibly warm wow

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works on 27 Mar 2024 14:54 next collapse

Doesn’t Ublock Origin work on phones now?

delirious_owl@discuss.online on 27 Mar 2024 15:03 collapse

Or AdAway to block it in all apps

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works on 27 Mar 2024 15:26 collapse

It looks like it doesn’t work across the board, but thanks for the heads up: adaway.org

Ads are not blocked when on mobile data connection!

AdAway will not work reliably when on Mobile Networks like 3G. You can deactivate that proxy by going to your selected APN (On Android 4: Wireless and networks -> More… -> Mobile Networks -> Access Point Names) and remove the value in the proxy field. Ads in Chrome are not blocked!

delirious_owl@discuss.online on 27 Mar 2024 16:15 collapse

Interesting. I dont use Sim cards so I wouldn’t know

[deleted] on 27 Mar 2024 15:21 collapse

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grant@toast.ooo on 27 Mar 2024 15:56 collapse

so that’s why it felt wrong typing that…