We disclose a novel tracking method by Meta and Yandex potentially affecting billions of Android users. We found that native Android apps—including Facebook, Instagram, and several Yandex apps including Maps and Browser—silently listen on fixed local ports for tracking purposes.
These native Android apps receive browsers' metadata, cookies and commands from the Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica scripts embedded on thousands of web sites. These JavaScripts load on users' mobile browsers and silently connect with native apps running on the same device through localhost sockets. As native apps access programatically device identifiers like the Android Advertising ID (AAID) or handle user identities as in the case of Meta apps, this method effectively allows these organizations to link mobile browsing sessions and web cookies to user identities, hence de-anonymizing users' visiting sites embedding their scripts.
This web-to-app ID sharing method bypasses typical privacy protections such as clearing cookies, Incognito Mode and Android's permission controls. Worse, it opens the door for potentially malicious apps eavesdropping on users’ web activity.
Alain Damasio, auteur de science-fiction, engagé sur la prise de conscience collective des limites du monde technologique donne une interview à la librairie millepages. Il s'imagine ministre de l'éducation, et explique ce qu'il faudrait apprendre à nos gamins. Les prompts pour IA, la gestion des réseaux sociaux, les jeux vidéos, on y voit plus clair.
Page wikipedia du concept mentionné : Boîte de Skinner
en Angleterre, Tanya O'Carroll a contraint Facebook à stopper l'affichage de publicitées ciblées avec ses données personnelles.
tl;dr:
I got used to a certain level of noise in my life, to a point where I didn’t notice it anymore. Once it was gone, it became so evident I felt relieved.
Quitting social media has been a good decision for me. I’m more focused, less anxious and have more free time.
More details from a former Site Reliability Engineer at Facebook: https://twitter.com/RenaudGuerin/status/1445114486457880582