🤯 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.
The app still misuses push notifications to send detailed device analytics about the device (uptime, battery, volume, locale, timezone, memory, CPU, etc.)
Facebook has been using ways to circumvent the users privacy permissions for mass surveillance for over a decade now. This is no surprise.
They call it “innovation”. I call it hacking and privacy violation.
Another situation where hacking is bad. Not all hacking is bad. But this is an example where it is.