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Instagram is testing new iOS push notifications that include a profile photo. Each time the notification is shown on your screen, it triggers a GET request to fetch that image, letting Meta track every on-screen impression (mastodon.social)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@programming.dev
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago*

Is this about/a problem with iOS or Android or both? The linked post only talks about iOS.

I'm surprised they can include remote requests [by consequence of remote URLs] in notifications.

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