Meta iOS apps accused of injecting code into third-party websites
with Apple about this in 2018."Allowing apps to show third-party web content in an in-app web view introduces a major security and privacy risk for iOS users," he wrote in a submission to Apple's privacy Radar bug tracking system and the public Open Radar site created because of Apple's peevish insistence on secrecy.
Meta insists Krause has misunderstood its web page injection."We intentionally developed this code to honor people’s App Tracking Transparency choices on our platforms," a Meta spokesperson told The Register in an email."The code allows us to aggregate data before it is used for targeted advertising or measurement purposes."
Apple's App Tracking Transparency, a privacy feature that Apple introduced last year that requires user consent for ad-related tracking, is expected. So you can imagine how enthusiastic Meta is to comply. It's also worth noting that in its eagerness to respect people's privacy decisions, Meta's Instagram and Facebook apps on iOS provide no way to opt-out of the ostensibly privacy-honoring code injection.
"The real scandal regarding FB's In-App 'Browser' isn't the extra tracking, it's the subversion of browser choice," said Alex Russell, a Microsoft Edge partner program manager,has the effect of removing tracker blocking that real browsers might apply.
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