“Meta devised an ingenious system (“localhost tracking”) that bypassed Android’s sandbox protections to identify you while browsing on your mobile phone — even if you used a VPN, the browser’s incognito mode, and refused or deleted cookies in every session.”

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    7 days ago

    WhatsApp is owned by Meta, so you should expect that they will do this soon enough if they aren’t doing it already.

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      6 days ago

      I would bet a ton of money on WhatsApp being a spy machine in a way people don’t know yet. Their bullshit of end to end encryption and privacy while being a free app is undoubtedly some ruse to squeeze data out of people. There isn’t a fucking doubt in my mind.

      Facebook is owning and operating a free and private messaging service? To what end? Yeah, nah. Not fuckin buying it.