A sophisticated tracking method employed by Meta (Facebook) and Yandex that potentially affected billions of Android users through covert web-to-app communications via localhost sockets.
The technique allowed native Android apps, including Facebook and Instagram, to silently receive browser metadata, cookies, and commands from Meta Pixel scripts embedded on thousands of websites, effectively linking mobile browsing sessions to user identities and bypassing standard privacy protections.
I still can’t comprehend why any script on any webpage is allowed to communicate with the localhost on a mobile device.
Could you explain what this means, I dont understand the localhost but I keep seeing it.
Your computer can have a static IP or a dynamic IP. A static IP is an IP that doesn’t change. This could be a cash register. A dynamic IP is a device that you connect to the internet to surf the hub like a tablet. Or your Wi-Fi or any network. And these addresses are needed to direct and identify because without this nothing will work. Now, everybody’s local host is most likely, now I don’t know everything, but is the same 127.0.0.1 … So you can spin up or install a program on a server and use that server’s IP address remotely, even though it has its own local address or on your own computer and since you’re not connecting to that service remotely, you just use your local address 192.166.3.4 (ip) vs 127.0.0.1 (local host). Now your device is recognized by the router through its Mac address. It’s like the computer’s DNA. A unique identifier. Which can be spoofed. Shit on top of shit.
localhost is “this device”.
connecting to localhost means connecting to something running on the same machine.
Browsers generally block connections to other domains (ex if you’re on google.com, the browser won’t simply let the site contact amazon.com willy-nilly).
But localhost is your own machine, so it is usually “trusted”. Facebook exploited this fact to exfiltrate data from the browser to the other apps running on your own phone, which would, in turn be free to do with it as they please, because they’re not the browser
Well, the same individuals that are preying on the children are the same individuals that spread how to cheat in video games. Then now we are no longer allowed to own our video games and they force us to use an operating system that is basically a virus. Then on top of that they want you to install a root kit where basically the video game company can just diddle with their dick beaters through your machine. I’d rather stare at the wall then to give in to any of this. If there was like a moment where I was near the button and they were going to tell me that I had to live this way, I’d push that button. There is always an option and sometimes that option is chaos and destruction. I’m not scared of nukes and I lean into the apocalypse. like, look what you forced me to do. How could you? Smash smash smash. You want to know who has the most child corn? the intelligence agencies. Those that want to save the children are those that harm the children. It’s all about managing perception. “Oh the humanity… You gotta save the children. Oh, the children.” At this point, you should have gotten it by now considering of all the dead children that we’ve recently killed in the world. This internet security nonsense is just about corporate control and walled gardens, so they can manage perception and expand the empire further. This should be always the framework that you go by. It’s us the people against the tyrants, the capitalist class and The Tech Bros. I think it’s been at least a decade, at least, since I’ve purchased a video game. Well I did buy. “Good boy” on itch.io for my miyoo mini. Fuck steam, fuck em all…fuck social media and all those “you are perinoid” types. There are background processes that control your life and you will either acknowledge them or ignore them. But don’t cry out gawd to make your life better. It ain’t listening but the corporate gooners are.
Thank you
Facebook (fuck their renaming) should be spilt into half a dozen different companies. Not going to happen in current shambolic regime in USA though.
The company should have been modified in the historical record as a terrorist organization supported by treasonous actors, completely disbanded, cannibalized and Mark Zuckerberg should have been put to death. along with all the enablers like Nancy Pelosi. It’s such a big fucking iceberg that it’s hard to call a spade a spade, but I call a spade a spade. I would take the figure head and nail it on a cross. I would chop off its head and put it on a spear for all to see. Facebook has enabled genocide and spread lies that created chaos inside of communities. I would create laws where aglorythms should be open sourced with a switch that could be turned off. And if there’s any fuckery, you either get your balls or your tits chopped off and imprisoned in a dark room @100°f for the rest of your fucking life.
They practically control personal communications in majority of the world and none of the governments seem to care.
Our government officials work for the corporate sector because government has been captured by corporations. So most plebs, you know, still worship the sun. And you know, the types like Nancy Pelosi definitely care, but what they care about is their stock portfolio. Not doing what we perceive as their jobs. But it’s kind of interesting seeing how Europe has lost faith in the Yankee Empire and is slowly becoming more self-reliant and moving away from US companies. Which in turn, if we don’t become completely like North Korea, and we can access the internet outside of the usa, it gives us the opportunity to possibly use some decent software, which makes me excited. And to be honest, I use a lot of software that’s created by Europeans. So, it’s kind of already like that. But then it’ll just get better hopefully.
