{"id":12730,"date":"2022-11-10T20:43:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T02:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadmarketing.com.mx\/el-navegador-web-integrado-de-instagram-y-facebook-es-un-peligro-para-tu-privacidad-hipertextual\/"},"modified":"2022-11-10T20:43:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T02:43:10","slug":"instagram-and-facebooks-built-in-web-browser-is-a-danger-to-your-hypertext-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadmarketing.com.mx\/en\/instagram\/instagram-and-facebooks-built-in-web-browser-is-a-danger-to-your-hypertext-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram and Facebook's built-in web browser is a danger to your privacy \u2013 Hipertextual"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If we say that social networks collect endless amounts of information from their users by constantly monitoring their online activity, we're not discovering anything new. What is surprising is how they increasingly have more tools to do so, even if users haven't given their consent. Thus, for example, it has been discovered that The web browser built into Instagram and Facebook is also a danger to our privacy<\/strong>.
Felix Krause<\/strong>, developer of the automation app Fastlane, has published a detailed report exposing how platforms used by billions of people worldwide are using this method to extract information behind their backs. This is happening on both Android and iOS.
He report in question<\/a> The new feature focuses on the built-in browser of Facebook, Instagram and Messenger, three of Meta's most popular apps. However, it is also fair to point out that these are not the only social networks that have tools of this type. Twitter also uses a similar solution when users open a link included in a tweet, although Krause does not specify whether it falls into the same practices as Mark Zuckerberg's company.
What browsers built into apps like Facebook and Instagram are proposing is that users can access linked content without having to leave the social networks. Is that convenient? Yes, very convenient. But it also poses a serious threat to the privacy of our personal information, as has been discovered.
What these platforms do when you open a link without using a \u201cconventional\u201d browser, such as Safari or Chrome, is inject a tracer<\/strong>It records every interaction people make on an external website. According to Krause, this ranges from tapping on an ad to opening another link, selecting text, or taking a screenshot, among other actions.<\/p>\n