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Comment by crimsontech

8 months ago

These apps were recently found to be collectind a huge amount of personal browsing data from the device, regardless of whether private browser mode was used or permission settings.

https://localmess.github.io/

This technique was discovered, makes me wonder how many undiscovered techniques are still in use.

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frizlab  8 months ago

This is on android. iOS has usually less privacy issues.

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