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> but Facebook's recent tricks where websites secretly talked to apps on your phone have broken that assumption - websites might be in cahoots with local network servers to work against your interests.

This isn't going to help for that. The locally installed app, and the website, can both, independently, open a connection to a 3rd party. There's probably enough fingerprinting available for the 3rd party to be able to match them.




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