Meta, yandex caught spying on android users web activity using Covert Web-to-App Tracking via unprotected Localhost since 2017

https://localmess.github.io/ We disclose a novel tracking method by Meta and Yandex potentially affecting billions of Android users. We found that native Android apps—including Facebook, Instagram, and several Yandex apps including Maps and Browser—silently listen on fixed local ports for tracking purposes. These native Android apps receive browsers’ metadata, cookies and commands from the Meta Pixel Read more about Meta, yandex caught spying on android users web activity using Covert Web-to-App Tracking via unprotected Localhost since 2017[…]