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I still can't comprehend why any script on any webpage is allowed to communicate with the localhost on a mobile device.
Could you explain what this means, I dont understand the localhost but I keep seeing it.
localhost is "this device".
connecting to localhost means connecting to something running on the same machine.
Browsers generally block connections to other domains (ex if you're on google.com, the browser won't simply let the site contact amazon.com willy-nilly).
But localhost is your own machine, so it is usually "trusted". Facebook exploited this fact to exfiltrate data from the browser to the other apps running on your own phone, which would, in turn be free to do with it as they please, because they're not the browser
Thank you
Facebook (fuck their renaming) should be spilt into half a dozen different companies. Not going to happen in current shambolic regime in USA though.
They practically control personal communications in majority of the world and none of the governments seem to care.
Our government officials work for the corporate sector because government has been captured by corporations. So most plebs, you know, still worship the sun. And you know, the types like Nancy Pelosi definitely care, but what they care about is their stock portfolio. Not doing what we perceive as their jobs. But it's kind of interesting seeing how Europe has lost faith in the Yankee Empire and is slowly becoming more self-reliant and moving away from US companies. Which in turn, if we don't become completely like North Korea, and we can access the internet outside of the usa, it gives us the opportunity to possibly use some decent software, which makes me excited. And to be honest, I use a lot of software that's created by Europeans. So, it's kind of already like that. But then it'll just get better hopefully.