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Meta and Yandex bypassed Android privacy to link anonymous web browsing to app users
The research, extensively analyzed by Ars Technica, focuses on the widespread use of analytics scripts such as Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica. These tools are embedded across...
A hot potato: For years, the privacy of Android users browsing the web has been quietly compromised by a sophisticated tracking method employed by two of the world's largest tech companies: Meta and Yandex. According to recent research, both companies have exploited legitimate browser-to-app communication protocols to covertly link anonymous web activity with the identities of users logged into native apps like Facebook, Instagram, and various Yandex services on Android devices. While Android's sandboxing and browser storage partitioning are intended to keep web and app data siloed, Meta and Yandex have discovered methods to bypass these safeguards, effectively enabling cross-app tracking.
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