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Here's the official blog post explaining the feature in depth: https://webkit.org/blog/7675/intelligent-tracking-prevention...
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…
Maybe it is magical in the American sense, but i can't say i get the big whoop from the European side of the Atlantic...
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Let me play back what I'm hearing: Chrome is great because it uniquely protects you from 3rd-party hackers on the internet. Fair enough. But do Chrome's protections also protect you equally from intercession by Google? I just want to clarify this point in my mind.
> But do Chrome's protections also protect you equally from intercession by Google? I just want to clarify this point in my mind. I'd say yes, unless Chrome has specific backdoors for Google. If that was ever discovered, I'd imagine a huge shitstorm happening.
Thumbs up for Apple distinguishing themselves by their pro-privacy stance, as opposed to MS, who don't have anything to win by Win10's excessive "telemetry" IMHO.
It's also a real shame they're doing this before Mozilla. Mozilla already has Tracking Protection but only for Private Windows. It's like Mozilla can't even embrace its privacy stance fully.
> We believe these additions will help us take the next step toward shipping Tracking Protection in Firefox beyond Private Browsing Mode. Look for that study in late 2017.
Thumbs up for Apple distinguishing themselves by their pro-privacy stance, as opposed to MS, who don't have anything to win by Win10's excessive "telemetry" IMHO.
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…
That's actually not how ApplePay works. You get a new randomized credit card number, but only once. Shops can still track you by checking for the number. You can check that yourself by looking at receipts when you pay with ApplePay - each receipt features the same numbers (most receipt only show the last 4 digits, but they are always the same when you pay with ApplePay).
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This is actually really concerning to me. If they blocked Google Analytics, it would severely damage that data. It'd be bad news for site owners who just want to quantify their traffic.
The article says (my emphasis): > segregate the _cross-site_ scripting data So if you "just want to quantify your traffic", use self-hosted Piwik (i.e. not cross-site), as many of us do already.
Honest question. I'm not logging anything about my websites' visitors on principle, so I don't have insight into that area.
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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…
Sounds to me like they basically transferred chip-and-pin online. Maybe it is magical in the American sense, but i can't say i get the big whoop from the European side of the Atlantic...
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Sounds to me like they basically transferred chip-and-pin online. Maybe it is magical in the American sense, but i can't say i get the big whoop from the European side of the Atlantic...
Apple Pay is a generation ahead of chip and pin. It obviates the need to enter a PIN which is more convenient and invulnerable to attacks on PIN terminals, which have defeated chip and pin in the past.[1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV
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Sounds to me like they basically transferred chip-and-pin online. Maybe it is magical in the American sense, but i can't say i get the big whoop from the European side of the Atlantic...
Apple Pay is a generation ahead of chip and pin. It obviates the need to enter a PIN which is more convenient and invulnerable to attacks on PIN terminals, which have defeated chip and pin in the past.[1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV