Instagram can track online activity of users: Ex-Google engineer
A former Google engineer has said Instagram might be tracking the online activity of its users. Felix Krause, the founder of fastlane, claimed in a blog on August 10 that on Apple's mobile operating system iOS, the app of Instagram as well as Facebook, render all third-party links and ads within its app using a custom in-app browser.
He added that links to external websites are rendered inside the Instagram app, instead of using the built-in Safari. The former Google engineer pointed out that the Instagram app injects its JavaScript code into every website shown, including when clicking on ads. “Even though pcm.js doesn’t do this, injecting custom scripts into third-party websites allows them to monitor all user interactions, like every button & link tapped, text selections, screenshots, as well as any form inputs, like passwords, addresses and credit card numbers,” he said.
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