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Apple Launches New Safari Ad Campaign: 'A Browser That's Actually Private'
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The ads in the News app are already pretty awful, the size of them is one of the things that stood out to me recently. It's not just a small banner but instead is often bigger than two or three full paragraphs of text.
I won't be using the News app anymore, there are better alternatives like Flipboard which don't have half of the news stories in the feed being behind a subscription paywall so I can't access them anyway.
Cool! Are people going to get upset about this one too for some reason? Did this one "miss the mark"?
Until uBlock Origin full can run on Safari, it's not as private as Apple says
How about this idea: spend the same marketing money to convince more devs to care about safari instead of touting this so-called PRIVACY? A browser that can’t load webpages properly or at all won’t do any good even if my session is “private”. Make sure the browser works FIRST please.
Apple is losing their tracks.
Even more comical is they partnered with Optus in Australia, the company that just suffered one big data breach a couple years ago and a massive infrastructure breakdown last year or so. Talking about desperation.
Taboola is such a nasty company. I hate their ads. So nasty. I won’t be keeping my Apple News subscription when it expires. 🤮
I guess based on these ads we are expected to just what take their word for it?View attachment 2397681View attachment 2397683View attachment 2397682Saw these another day in Town Hall station, Sydney.
How about this idea: spend the same marketing money to convince more devs to care about safari instead of touting this so-called PRIVACY? A browser that can’t load webpages properly or at all won’t do any good even if my session is “private”. Make sure the browser works FIRST please.
Apple is losing their tracks.
This is adorable.
Now Apple, how about you have your own developers actually use your own browser (for once) on a system with only 16GB of RAM and watch the memory pressure. Then have them use tab groups (for once) and see how many phantom windows stay open in the background.
Now Apple, how about you have your own developers actually use your own browser (for once) on a system with only 16GB of RAM and watch the memory pressure. Then have them use tab groups (for once) and see how many phantom windows stay open in the background.
"But please, use Google. It's as private as streaming your whole life on Twitch but they give us money to push you to use it.
What is this, Apple's take on skibidi toilet vs cameraman? (camerabird to be precise)
I would be more interested how private are photos stored on iPhone, especially since they introduced new "recovery" features (more backdoors?).
Also bare Safari is not able to block most of the trackers. With adblocks yes, but not on its own. So ad is actually misleading
I would be more interested how private are photos stored on iPhone, especially since they introduced new "recovery" features (more backdoors?).
Also bare Safari is not able to block most of the trackers. With adblocks yes, but not on its own. So ad is actually misleading
Use Little Snitch and you can block the trackers on a system level rather than app by app
Ugh, Taboola content has to be up there with the biggest clickbait garbage ever.
Disappointing to see Apple partner with them.
they're just trying to make them look ultra-generic and not associated with any brand in any possible way.
Until Apple convinces more 3rd Party developers to build extensions that the company approves of, Safari remains a hobbled browser for many.
That said, the Orion browser on Mac uses the Safari / Web Kit engine and settings, but also allows for many of both Chrome and Firefox extensions to be used.
That said, the Orion browser on Mac uses the Safari / Web Kit engine and settings, but also allows for many of both Chrome and Firefox extensions to be used.
Wasn't the availability to use Chrome and Firefox extensions greatly expanded with the release of Safari 14 in 2020?
Another way for Apple to potentially encourage more development for the Safari browser would be to make it available on Android and Windows.
I wish more people would use Safari so that Watch ESPN would finally fix their bugs instead of telling people to just use Chrome.
Non-Chromium based browsers like Firefox work fine. Using the private browsing window in Safari may also work.
Only way they're going to bother is if one of the senior developers at ESPN or their boss's family decide to exclusively use Safari.
Had a site we use at work last year put up a (completely pointless) Black Friday sale animation that would lock up both Safari and Firefox. Their only solution was to use Chrome. The web has already been surrendered to chromium because the only web developers who ever use Safari and Firefox are shrinking teams working at Apple and Mozilla.
Safari is great. It's light, quick and doesn't bog down system resources. Chrome is bulky and takes up all my system resources. I really don't get the appeal.