While TikTok said the code’s only used for debugging, researchers also found Meta products Facebook and Instagram can track users’ in-app browser. Reading time 5 minutes Tick tock goes the clock. It ...

‘Beware in-app browsers’ is a good rule of thumb for any privacy conscious mobile app user — given the potential for an app to leverage its hold on user attention to snoop on what you’re looking at ...

Google has removed browser extensions with more than 1.4 million downloads from the Chrome Web Store after third-party researchers reported they were surreptitiously tracking users’ browsing history ...

Earlier I posted that Google Analytics and other JavaScript-based tracking tools might be undercounting visits from Twitter. I’ve done some more digging, which supports the case. In my test, Twitter ...

Google Analytics is used by millions of websites to determine traffic to alter their sites for a better browsing experience by loading a bit of JavaScript code. For secure sites, Google offers a ...