How do social media in-app browsers affect your online privacy?

As a new research on social media in-app browsers shows, there are some hidden web trackers that not even the best VPN services can prevent.  Felix Krause, a former Google engineer, reported (opens in new tab) that people who directly open webpages from their Facebook and Instagram app could be putting their personal information at risk. This is because Meta seems to inject additional lines of code on websites to better track users’ online activities.

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