Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser

Post by xfitm3 » Wed, Aug 10, 2022, 10:50 PM UTC

bacan wrote: post #233

In-App browsers have always been a security nightmare. Similar issues exist with Electron apps as well. But developers continue to use them as HTML + CSS + JS is the easiest way to develop a graphical dynamic UI, for a newbie. Many schools & colleges even teach basic HTML, CSS & JS, so the barrier to entry is very low. I am not sure what a good solution here would be, but maybe we could start by limiting access. Or a…

Post by majormajor » Wed, Aug 10, 2022, 10:56 PM UTC

Zababa wrote: post #282

CodeSgt wrote: post #275

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I suppose I should have said it's not being talked about by any mainstream authorities or outlets in the same way a lot of women's or equity issues are (not to say porn isn't also a women's issue, it very much is, but seems to disproportionately impact men). It is a shame that any group which advocates men's issues tends to get labeled as right-wing or incelish, which then attracts those types and makes those labels…

I share the same view of the situation as you. A consequence of the increase in demands for justice, political correctness, and stuff like that seems to be that every community has to be focused on a oppressed group or it will be considered right-wing and thus attract people like you said. The incel label is a good example of how bad men are treated sometimes. If you treated poor people like this by saying they're in…

Post by pricci » Wed, Aug 10, 2022, 11:00 PM UTC

orlp wrote: post #311

wepple wrote: post #164

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Tangential, but these same links have always been a great way to break out of poorly designed kiosk systems. I recall noodling with a huge interactive display on the side of a bus stop that had an embedded map, and surely enough the TOS link launched a browser, and from there you could use the Save As dialog to get to anything to execute

As a kid I loved doing this in every museum/library/other place that always had 'locked down' interactive Windows systems back in my youth. One of my favorite ones was in a museum where I was with a friend, and there was a PC. We were bored and wanted to play some flash game, but we only had access to a mouse, and clicking links inside the locked fullscreen browser. With enough clicks we got to google and managed to…

Post by cercatrova » Wed, Aug 10, 2022, 11:08 PM UTC

t8ty2evj wrote: post #307

graham1776 wrote: post #152

I've meant to write a blog post about this, but here goes: In-app browsers allow users to view inappropriate content, often against the wishes of sensitive individuals. People especially at risk for this include addicts and children. Nearly every app, even "safe apps" including children-rated apps, allow access to an in app browser. Even when iOs has locked down all access to Safari, a parent has removed access to al…

This seems like a non-issue. Where's the damage? I'm tired of people using children and a miniscule population of users w/ severe content sensitivities as excuses to justify features that are really just tools for asserting norms. The children are fine. We've been talking about how bad the internet is for children so long that those children grew up, led fufilling lives, had their own children, and now those children…

Post by MomoXenosaga » Wed, Aug 10, 2022, 11:16 PM UTC

dzikimarian wrote: post #277

I'm surprised that so many people write "yeah, any in-app browser can do that - nothing to see here". Anyone can potentially steal your wallet, so we shouldn't point out when someone actually does? Especially when there's hard evidence in article?