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Apple has published a new ad to appeal to customers who prioritize privacy when browsing, suggesting that Safari is the one you should use if you want to "Keep data trackers off your back."


In a new Privacy on iPhone segment titled "Safari helps block data trackers," the ad shows users of rival phones in everyday situations having to live with data trackers as they browse. The trackers are depicted as people in chrome-colored suits (get it?) who generally follow them around wherever they go to look at their screen – and in some cases literally sit on their shoulders to get a better view.

Apple on its website calls privacy a "fundamental human right," and highlights several features that Chrome doesn't come with out of the box. Safari blocks third-party cookies by default, uses machine learning to combat tracking, removes tracking parameters from URLs in Private Browsing, hides your IP address from known trackers, prevents web extensions from accessing your browsing activity by default, and blocks known trackers in Private Browsing.

Article Link: Apple's New Ad Pitches Safari as a More Private Alternative to Chrome
 
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Speaking of chrome, I would love to see as an option, Apple computers in chrome colours. Just saying. Especially chrome orange. I would LOVE that.
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For people who want privacy and Chrome's speed and compatibility on Mac, Try Helium.


It's actually really hard to find a clean and open source Chromium fork with auto update. (Brave is filled with crypto and bloat. Ungoogled Chromium is great and Helium is a fork of It but Ungoogled Chromium does not have auto update built in.)

I would love to use Safari on my Mac if It's not so buggy and lacking in compatibility and features. (The slowness and randomness of suggestion of bookmarks/history in Safari is just laughable for a company like Apple with all these engineers)
 
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I've mostly moved on from Chrome. Firefox and Safari on desktops/laptop and Safari on my iPhone. Chrome is okay, but is not quite as fast as Safari. Ad blocking is also better in just about every browser than Chrome.
 
"Safari is more private than Chrome" yeah yeah of course of course.... like a fire is less hot than the Sun. Anything is less hot than the Sun. I don't see the selling point here. And what about if Google run an ad saying "Google search is the default search engine on Safari and Gemini is the brain of their super revolutionary new new new Siri" ? So being Apple I would keep quiet and not attack Google. Especially when you consider a phone made by Google (the Pixel) is currently the recommended one to run GrapheneOS.... obviously it's not thanks to Google but more thanks to the GrapheneOS devs.... but "Apple" and "privacy" yes .... I mean.... pretty sure everything you do on your apple device or iCloud can be read by Apple without problem.
 
I would not call iCloud Private Relay “far more advanced than any VPN”, as it does not support IP address choice from a specific region, etc., but I do have it permanently enabled on all my Apple devices and it works very well.
To clarify, i mean “advanced” in terms of actual zero knowledge privacy.
 

Highly recommend a visit using the browser/settings you think are best protecting you. You score should be a fingerprint = random number. (Brave works best for me.) Very useful and illuminating. Fingerprinting goes very deep, so give it a try.
 
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