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 ...

Google Chrome is about to make a huge tracking change. We await a global prompt to say no to cookies within the world’s most popular browser — albeit we will need to use private browsing for some of ...