‘Beware in-app browsers’ is a good rule of thumb for any privacy conscious mobile app user — given the potential for an app to leverage its hold on user attention to snoop on what you’re looking at ...

Data security and privacy risks surrounding in-app browsers have been making headlines. These are the threats they pose and steps needed to minimize them. In-app browsers can pose significant security ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s a companion app. It’s a sidebar. It’s definitely not trying to replace mobile Safari, at least not yet. It’s ...

Researcher shows how Instagram and Facebook’s use of an in-app browser within both its iOS apps can track interactions with external websites. Users of Apple’s Instagram and Facebook iOS apps are ...

In-app browsers on TikTok and other apps include code that could potentially track user activity on websites. (Photo Illustration by Thiago Prudêncio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) When ...