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Safari gives you privacy by default without the need to fiddle with controls.


Ostensibly.

Safari guesses what is privacy invading or not, and as such makes mistakes. I appreciate their effort, but I don’t believe it’s good enough.

This month we got reports of browser fingerprinting on iOS that happened via the phone’s gyroscope[1]. There was a way to not be affected: disabling JavaScript.

[1]: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/21/iphone_mems_gyrosco...




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