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Meta(Facebook) and Yandex apps silently de-anonymize users’ browsing habits without consent. (www.ru.nl)
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This kind of cross-platform tracking is unprecedented - and it’s especially surprising coming from two companies that serve billions of users worldwide

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

and it’s especially surprising coming from two companies that serve billions of users worldwide

I mean, deanonymization and data-mining costs are gonna be R&D, so they're a fixed cost that doesn't really scale up with the size of the userbase, so it makes more sense, financially, for a company with a larger userbase to be putting resources into it.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

One could say it's their fiduciary duty.