A group of researchers has uncovered a system that Instagram and Facebook have been using since September 2024 to collect users’ web browsing history on Android devices
How meta bypasses your phone’s browser security to track you.
i just meant who’s their primary customer, really. advertisers aren’t fully divested of surveillance capitalism, obviously, but the fact remains there’s been a shift
They don’t sell the data, the data is their whole business. They use the data to filter people and give their customers a list of targets depending on their customers goals
and they’re running out of advertisers to sell that data to so they’re selling it to governments instead
This implies it was ever not for sale to governments.
i just meant who’s their primary customer, really. advertisers aren’t fully divested of surveillance capitalism, obviously, but the fact remains there’s been a shift
They don’t sell the data, the data is their whole business. They use the data to filter people and give their customers a list of targets depending on their customers goals