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Comment by LtWorf

3 months ago

Wasn't the loopback address recently used maliciously?

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salawat  3 months ago

Yes. Facebook/Meta was using a locally hosted proxy to get info smuggled back without using routes that are increasingly obstructed by things like ad blockers if I recall correctly.

https://securityonline.info/androids-secret-tracking-meta-ya...

Search string for DDG: Meta proxy localhost data exfiltration

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