Conversation cleary monitored and not sure how

[diamond.g]

There's also the recent story of Meta listening on TCP and UDP ports through their Android apps to circumvent privacy measures and track you across the web regardless of cookie preferences online

Like packet sniffing/tracing?

 

[casperes1996]

Like packet sniffing/tracing?

No; Like they actually opened "server" ports on localhost (not port 80; I forget which ports) that their Meta Pixel tracking system would send and receive data from on the web to send tracking details from every website you visit to your Meta apps and vice versa; Your Facebook profile details to all websites you visited. Didn't matter if you had all cookies disabled on the web and strong privacy settings enabled. As soon as the report detailing the practice was published they stopped doing it

 

[diamond.g]

No; Like they actually opened "server" ports on localhost (not port 80; I forget which ports) that their Meta Pixel tracking system would send and receive data from on the web to send tracking details from every website you visit to your Meta apps and vice versa; Your Facebook profile details to all websites you visited. Didn't matter if you had all cookies disabled on the web and strong privacy settings enabled. As soon as the report detailing the practice was published they stopped doing it

That is wild.

 

[Eric]

No; Like they actually opened "server" ports on localhost (not port 80; I forget which ports) that their Meta Pixel tracking system would send and receive data from on the web to send tracking details from every website you visit to your Meta apps and vice versa; Your Facebook profile details to all websites you visited. Didn't matter if you had all cookies disabled on the web and strong privacy settings enabled. As soon as the report detailing the practice was published they stopped doing it

Unbelievable, worthy of a class action.

 

[casperes1996]

Unbelievable, worthy of a class action.

If it were any other app developer they'd also get banned from the Google Play Store. It's explicitly against the rules. As a developer that's one of the things that can annoy me - They almost get a free pass on things that'd get the rest of us kicked off.

 

[Yoused]

Your Facebook profile details to all websites you visited.

Probably not every site you visited, just the ones that subscribe to META's data pushing service. They have to draw revenue, after all.

 

[Eric]

Probably not every site you visited, just the ones that subscribe to META's data pushing service. They have to draw revenue, after all.

In the most unscrupulous ways possible. In many ways FB is a modern day trojan horse virus.

 

[casperes1996]

Probably not every site you visited, just the ones that subscribe to META's data pushing service. They have to draw revenue, after all.

You're right - My phrasing was exaggerated I suppose - It 'only' happened on all websites that used the "Meta Pixel" tracking framework