Meta devised an ingenious system (“localhost tracking”) that bypassed Android’s sandbox protections to identify you while browsing on your mobile phone — even if you used a VPN, the browser’s incognito mode, and refused or deleted cookies in every session.Next, we preview what may (and should) become the combined sanctioning smackdown of the century, and then we explain — in simple terms (because it’s complicated) — what Meta was doing.Meta faces simultaneous liability under the following regula...