New research suggests that Meta and Yandex used a loophole in Android to link web browsing data to app identities. The method bypassed incognito mode, cookie clearing, and other privacy protections.

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Android's sandboxing typically keeps apps from sharing sensitive identifiers, but a loophole allows apps to subversively bypass ...

The app contains multiple features that have sounded alarm bells in this security researcher's analysis.

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