Re:Meta found 'covertly tracking' Android users through Inst...
by swiftcoder on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @01:44PM
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I'm not sure I agree about any of these being desirable as specified.
* App-to-app network communication really only seems sane between apps from the same vendor.
* Unique fingerprinting of the device is explicitly not desirable. They should have access to a unique anonymous identifier for the device, which cannot be compared between apps from multiple vendors.
* Browsers talking to native apps again seems like something that should only be possible if both the web domain and the app belong to the same vendor. I don't have a huge problem with Facebook.com talking to the Facebook app - I do have a problem with random 3rd-party sites talking to the Facebook app.
* App-to-app network communication really only seems sane between apps from the same vendor.
* Unique fingerprinting of the device is explicitly not desirable. They should have access to a unique anonymous identifier for the device, which cannot be compared between apps from multiple vendors.
* Browsers talking to native apps again seems like something that should only be possible if both the web domain and the app belong to the same vendor. I don't have a huge problem with Facebook.com talking to the Facebook app - I do have a problem with random 3rd-party sites talking to the Facebook app.