A professor at Radoud University realized that the Meta Pixel tracker (present on around 20% of popular websites) had been linked to Facebook and Instagram apps on one of the best Android phones.

Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica are estimated to be installed on 5.8 million and 3 million sites, respectively. Meta and Yandex achieve the bypass by abusing basic functionality built into modern ...

But Meta found a way to connect Meta Pixel to the cell phone app. This linked the web traffic it recorded to the user’s identity, as registered in Facebook and Instagram.

A professor at Radoud University realized that the Meta Pixel tracker (present on around 20% of popular websites) had been linked to Facebook and Instagram apps on one of the best Android phones.