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by throwaway290 305 days ago
What they do then is create an app where location is necessary, make that app spin up a localhost server, then add js to facebook and every site with a like button to phone that localhost and basically deanon everyone.
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How could this possibly work without port forwarding?
2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44169115.

Of course Facebook's JS won't add itself to websites, so half of the blame goes to webmasters willingly sending malware to browsers.

It happens on the same device. No forwarding necessary. And it was documented to happen, the story was on HN