The Washington Post rates Safari BEHIND Mozilla’s FireFox and Google Chrome of other Browsers in the ability to cut out tracking efforts on line…….
But Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, said Safari is no better than the fourth-best web browser for your privacy.
“If browser privacy were a sport at the Olympics, Apple isn’t getting on the medal stand,” Cahn said. (Apple did not comment about this.)
The bottom line if you use Safari: You should feel reasonably good about the privacy (and security) protections, but you can probably do better — either by tweaking your Apple settings or using a web browser that’s even more private than Safari. I’ll dig into the details….
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🟢 Safari’s “private” mode has extra privacy protections.
When you use this option, Apple says it does more to block use of “advanced” fingerprinting techniques. It also steps up defenses against tracking that adds bits of identifying information to the web links you click. Whatever you’re doing on the web locks so no one but you can see it.
You can turn on private mode for everything you do in Safari, but there may be downsides. Apple says if you use private browsing all the time, some parts of websites might not work correctly.
If you choose this option: On an iPhone, go to the Settings app → Safari → Advanced → Advanced Tracking and Fingerprinting Protection → change to “All Browsing.”….
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