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 ...

'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 ...

An analysis by software developer Felix Krause showed that Facebook and Instagram’s in-app browsers track every user interaction. “The iOS Instagram and Facebook app render all third-party links and ...

Both Apple and Google are doing great work to prevent multi-site tracking. Google Chrome is slowly phasing out cookies, and Apple goes the furthest by asking users to block multi-app/multi-site ...