Facebook (now known as Meta) has reportedly been rewriting websites that its users visit, allowing the company to track them across the web after they click links in its app by “injecting” tracking code. The security researcher that sounded the alarm say that the tracking code allows Mark Zuckerberg to “monitor all user interactions, like every button and link tapped, text selections, screenshots, as well as any form inputs, like passwords, addresses and credit card numbers.”
The Guardian reports that a security researcher alleges that Facebook has been rewriting websites that its users visit and allowing the company to track them across the web after clicking links in its apps.
Mark Zuckerberg introduces Meta (Facebook)
Facebook and Instagram have been taking advantage of the fact that users who click links are taken to webpages in an “in-app browser” which is controlled by the apps rather than redirecting them to their device’s native browser.
Felix Krause, a privacy researcher who founded an app development tool acquired by Google in 2017, stated: “The Instagram app injects their tracking code into every website shown, including when clicking on ads, enabling them [to] monitor all user interactions, like every button and link tapped, text selections, screenshots, as well as any form inputs, like passwords, addresses and credit card numbers.”
Time to FINE them !!!!
facebook meta what ever they want to be called will be tracking exactly zero of my personal information. I am not a facebook user. Also I use Duck Duck Go for my internet searches. They are not noisy like google and report nothing to big brother.