Meta(Facebook) and Yandex apps silently de-anonymize users’ browsing habits without consent. (www.ru.nl)

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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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it's especially surprising...

No, it most certainly is anything but surprising

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Meta(Facebook) and Yandex, enough said.

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