Instagram and Facebook's iOS in-app browsers can monitor users' interactions with any website, report

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Instagram and Facebook's iOS in-app browsers can monitor users' interactions with any website, report
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Instagram and Facebook's iOS in-app browsers can monitor users' interactions with any website, report

The practice would violate the App Tracking Transparency policy set out by Apple

According to a recent investigation, Facebook and Instagram's in-app browsers on iOS can monitor user activity with websites without the user's knowledge. Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram both ...

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