Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 06, 2017, 4:41 AM UTC

kbrosnan wrote: post #207

flukus wrote: post #196

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I didn't realize it was only activated in private windows. Now that you've made me notice I consider this misleading, on the settings page it says nothing about being private windows only.

It most certainly does say that this only applies to private windows, "Use Tracking Protection in Private Windows" [1]. If you want the always using tracking protection you can set privacy.trackingprotection.enabled to true in about:config or install the disconnect extension. [1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/settings-privacy-browsi...

Post by kartickv » Tue, Jun 06, 2017, 5:04 AM UTC

AlexandrB wrote: post #130

tptacek wrote: post #80

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If you're interested in a detailed answer, read this: https://medium.com/@justin.schuh/securing-browsers-through-i... Then try to work back either Edge's or Chrome's approach to security to specific Safari features and design. The Chrome security team is probably the most sophisticated software security team in the industry (lest you think I'm in the tank for Google, I'd say the iOS platform security team is a close…

> The Chrome security team is probably the most sophisticated software security team in the industry Unfortunately the Chrome security team can't provide the kind of security I care about - security from Google's tracking.

Post by alwillis » Tue, Jun 06, 2017, 5:28 AM UTC

cpeterso wrote: post #106

tpush wrote: post #99

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"it's gonna make a huge dent in Google Analytics' numbers". Very unlikely, since almost nobody uses desktop Safari.

This feature will surely show up in iOS Safari, which would have a big impact.

Post by Antrikshy » Tue, Jun 06, 2017, 6:34 AM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #27

The big question to me is whether it's enabled by default, and whether it blocks requests to Google Analytics. If so, that's an interesting shot across the bow.

Post by ianai » Tue, Jun 06, 2017, 7:18 AM UTC

abalone wrote: post #194

code4tee wrote: post #70

Sounds like this is more in line with what they did with ApplePay vs traditional credit cards--I.e. They give you randomized IDs each time so the other party can't track you from transaction to transaction. Adds can still appear but they won't know who you are, so it's a direct shot at Google and others looking to give people "targeted" adds based on user behavior. I agree it's an issue that needs addressed. Just bec…

Apple Pay does offer enhanced privacy by not transmitting your name along with your card number, but it doesn't randomize the number with every transaction. In fact you may not want that as it would disrupt email receipt systems and loyalty programs (absent some parallel mechanism). Apple Pay does something called tokenization, and the goal is more fraud protection than privacy. It generates one new number at card en…