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"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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[-] TerHu@lemm.ee 27 points 2 weeks ago

im wondering, does using uBlock help in any way? can they block metas pixel and thereby protect you?

[-] Luccus@feddit.org 39 points 2 weeks ago

You can Block WebRTC via uBlock.

From my understanding, this, along with setting Meta on fire, may mitigate the issue.

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Is that going to make video conference harder to use?

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