You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.

“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.”

  • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Almost sounds like you’re blaming the user while also not understanding that a de-google phone isn’t the solution because it’s not part of the tracking.

    • uxellodunum@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 days ago

      While this is true, it’s worth clarifying that GrapheneOS in particular is able to run apps sandboxed, so they can’t communicate with eachother as they can on a stock OS.

      Having said that, no one should expect that their right to privacy is given (or fought for), unless they take it first. Yes, laws and all, but user education is the bigger issue.

      Users were onboarded onto the Internet before they had an understanding of the differences between cyberspace and meatspace, and how that could affect them. Placing the blame (and solutions) solely on third-parties is a dangerous mistake.

    • mctoasterson@reddthat.com
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      2 days ago

      No, it is Meta and these companies fault, but I focus on things I can actually control. Just spewing the party line default Lemmy opinion of “capitalism is the problem, blah” doesn’t do anything to solve the problem.

      Educating people so they understand how the surveillance works, and explaining that there are alternatives, actually gets us closer to a solution.