“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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      2 days ago

      I completely forgot that existed! Double checking the technical article they do correctly label it as a browser in their testing matrix/grid.

      I just got confused by the clear “Brave browser” call out. When I hear DuckDuckGo I definitely don’t think browser.

      Good catch!