A report highlights how Meta and Yandex bypassed privacy and security controls to implement web-to-app tracking on Android ...

The research, extensively analyzed by Ars Technica, focuses on the widespread use of analytics scripts such as Meta Pixel and ...

Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica are analytics scripts designed to help advertisers measure the effectiveness of their campaigns ...

Meta and Yandex have been found to exploit a loophole in Android's architecture, enabling them to de-anonymize users' web browsing activit ...

Meta and Yandex tracker embeds have been discovered exploiting localhost connections to send cookie data to apps without ...

In the researcher's words, “These native Android apps receive browsers' metadata, cookies and commands from the Meta Pixel ...

Meta has been secretly de-anonymizing Android users by linking web identifiers to real identities and bypassing privacy ...

Google says Meta and search engine company Yandex used Android capabilities "in unintended ways that blatantly violate our security and privacy principles".

Essentially, by opening localhost ports that allow their Android apps to receive tracking data, such as cookies and browser ...