Meta(Facebook) and Yandex apps silently de-anonymize users’ browsing habits without consent. (www.ru.nl)
from Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 03 Jun 21:25
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This kind of cross-platform tracking is unprecedented - and it’s especially surprising coming from two companies that serve billions of users worldwide

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uberdroog@lemmy.world on 03 Jun 23:16 next collapse

If you are using facebook at this point, you deserve anything that happens.

xep@fedia.io on 04 Jun 00:24 next collapse

Is anyone surprised by this? Their entire business model is based on tracking people so of course they'll want to de-anonymize users.

Cocopanda@lemmy.world on 04 Jun 00:41 next collapse

Well. Fuck them. They banned me for calling out racists. Glad they don’t have my data anymore.

tal@lemmy.today on 04 Jun 01:05 collapse

and it’s especially surprising coming from two companies that serve billions of users worldwide

I mean, deanonymization and data-mining costs are gonna be R&D, so they’re a fixed cost that doesn’t really scale up with the size of the userbase, so it makes more sense, financially, for a company with a larger userbase to be putting resources into it.

Colloidal@programming.dev on 04 Jun 14:25 collapse

One could say it’s their fiduciary duty.