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zentiggr
6y ago
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Then FB left behind tracking data, and there's your link. Sigh.
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StavrosK
6y ago
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How? It was running in a browser.
cmwright
6y ago
Once you've logged into facebook from the device, they likely created a device fingerprint for your device:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint
. This would allow them to identify you even without a cookie or ad id to correlate against.
StavrosK
6y ago
I don't think the browser fingerprint and native app fingerprint are the same, what you say sounds unlikely to me.
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