Hidden tracking tied private browsing to accounts
Reported. Documented by journalists, researchers or Meta’s own files, with no legal finding. How evidence is labeled
Researchers found the Meta Pixel, embedded on millions of websites, passed browsing identifiers to the Facebook and Instagram apps on Android. For people logged into those apps, that linked their web browsing, including in incognito mode, to their accounts. Meta had used the method since September 2024 and stopped when the research was published.
Meta’s responseMeta said it decided “to pause the feature while we work with Google to resolve the issue.”
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