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

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Pro@programming.dev⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-news/new-research-highlights-privacy-abuse-involving-meta-and-yandex

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  • nick@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  • uberdroog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you are using facebook at this point, you deserve anything that happens.

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  • Cocopanda@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well. Fuck them. They banned me for calling out racists. Glad they don’t have my data anymore.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    and it’s especially surprising coming from two companies that serve billions of users worldwide

    I mean, deanonymization and data-mining costs are gonna be R&D, so they’re a fixed cost that doesn’t really scale up with the size of the userbase, so it makes more sense, financially, for a company with a larger userbase to be putting resources into it.

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    • Colloidal@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      One could say it’s their fiduciary duty.

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