browser development, bigger problem, workarounds
browser development, bigger problem, workarounds
Posted Jun 16, 2025 8:20 UTC (Mon) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)In reply to: browser development, bigger problem, workarounds by taladar
Parent article: Covert web-to-app tracking via localhost on Android
It’s not just intelligence (as in passive information collection). Targeted advertising waits for the moment one of your activity patterns is symptomatic of a vulnerability to conversion, and then feeds you the exact garbage that enabled this conversion in others. Given no one is superhuman without any moment of weakness it will eventually succeed.
Traditional advertising relied on brute force and brute force is obvious enough society as a whole can decide if the messaging is acceptable or not.