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Flaws in Apple's Intelligent Tracking Prevention Safari Feature Let People Be Tracked
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People should do a bit more research yes patched in December "But they're not quite fixed, according to Google's boffins. In a paper [PDF] titled, "Information Leaks via Safari's Intelligent Tracking Prevention," authors Artur Janc, Krzysztof Kotowicz, Lukas Weichselbaum, and Roberto Clapis claim that the proposed mitigations "will not address the underlying problem."
Have a read https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/22/apple_intelligent_tracking_protection/
Have a read https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/22/apple_intelligent_tracking_protection/
Well, we have to trust Google, they know best about data collection and circumventing security tactics to gain as much information about you as possible
This Apple user is doing just fine, thanks. ~~DRAAAAAMMMAAAA~~~
You don’t think Apple ever suffers from bad publicity?
Okay, sure.
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Yeah, not sure what that guy was talking about. Safari blocks all third party cookies by default.
All those pointing the finger at Apple should try and write software for a living for a high profile company that releases software to tens or hundreds of millions of users and with every release almost looking like a challenge or dare for hackers to try and find cracks in it, and maybe then have an opinion. There are few things truly impossible, but perfect software is one of them.
Do people use Safari? I'm asking as a serious question. I have a Mac and have never used it.
In fairness, they have almost unlimited resources to get it right
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Yes. Default. Get an Extra three hours of battery
If we learned anything from The Mythical Man Month is that throwing more people at the problem doesn't necessarily solve the problem. 😄
Ah...that old chestnut. A one thousand man-hour job can be done in one hour if you hire a thousand men.
Software is never finished. Ever. And even if it were, someone else would unfinish it for you.
I don't even understand why Google would disclose this. Their primary business model relies on being able to track a user on the Internet. They figured out how to do that and then shared it with Apple so Apple could prevent them from doing it?
Surely they don't think that announcement would entice security-conscious netizens to switch from Safari to Chrome.
In other news, Volkswagen tells the EPA how they plan to defeat emission standards...
Surely they don't think that announcement would entice security-conscious netizens to switch from Safari to Chrome.
In other news, Volkswagen tells the EPA how they plan to defeat emission standards...
isn't that the one the US government just warned to fix a security hole in IMMEDIATELY? Not sure what you are talking bout "patch" in the first place. You have to literally download and install flash by yourself, and have for years. I have not used flash, or downloaded it in years and don't miss out on anything. So I guess, yah, pretty much patched.
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Just for the record. Flash does not come pre-installed, you need to install it. I have not for years, don't miss anything. If a web site has not upgraded from flash, what other security risks does it pose? Should you trust it? NO! better to just never use those sites period!
Im happy using Firefox with settings on Strict and uBlock Origin and privacy badger. I only use safari on my iPhone and my iPad Pro.
Google is not a monolith. There are all sorts of competing priorities inside the company as there are in any large organization.
Actually, I believe the reason for the compass was to compete with Netscape "Navigator". It's just hung around unchanged for years after Netscape bit the big one.
The real irony is that Microsoft Edge's icon is just the Internet Explorer icon with a piece lopped off. I still think they simply retitled Internet Explorer.
To those who use Safari and are concerned about unwanted tracking, I would suggest installing the Safari extension called "Ghostery Lite" which will put an end to that unwanted tracking.
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And yet the default search engine in Safari is Google. Hmmmmm. (Yes, I know that can be changed to something else but there are probably plenty of users out there who haven't a clue how to do so.)
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And yet the default search engine in Safari is Google. Hmmmmm. (Yes, I know that can be changed to something else but there are probably plenty of users out there who haven't a clue how to do so.)
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Everyone says the default search engine is Google in Safari. Did I buy the only MacBook Pro that had it set to Bing out the gate?