In-app browsers (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok) found to track everything that users do.

“Do not browse the web in in-app browsers (e.g. in apps like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok). Experience is bad. Those apps also INJECT TRACKING INSTRUCTIONS. They control every interaction, all that is typed, clicked… Browse with normal web browsers.”

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