#EU#Cybersecurity#Antitrust#Apple#Safari: "Apple's grudging accommodation of European antitrust rules by allowing third-party app stores on iPhones has left users of its Safari browser exposed to potential web activity tracking.
Developers Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk looked into the way Apple implemented the installation process for third-party software marketplaces on iOS with Safari, and concluded Cupertino's approach is particularly shoddy.
"Our testing shows that Apple delivered this feature with catastrophic security and privacy flaws," wrote Bakry and Mysk in an advisory published over the weekend.
Apple – which advertises Safari as "incredibly private" – evidently has undermined privacy among European Union Safari users through a marketplace-kit: URI scheme that potentially allows approved third-party app stores to follow those users around the web."
In light of the EU's DMA and Apple's implementation of their Browser Choice screens, our CEO and Co-Founder, Jon von Tetzchner @jon, talks to @WIRED.
"It starts from you clicking Safari. Which, I think all of us agree, that's the wrong spot." Jon said he prefers Google's implementation of its new browser choice screen that guides Android users to select a default while setting up their phone.
Apple's implementation of installing marketplace apps from #Safari is heavily flawed and can allow a malicious marketplace to track #EU users across websites, even in private browsing mode. This blog details our findings:
The connection IS private. There IS certificate, and it IS valid. It's just self signed. Also, how could IP X be stealing data from IP X when THEY'RE THE SAME IP⁉️
Bonus. It doesn't matter how many times I tell it to "Always Trust" the certificate it REFUSES to remember AND it doesn't appear in Keychain Access.
just ARRRGH!
Every time i spend more than 5 minutes in Safari i come away wanting to yell at people.
Long shot, but with #safari now having support for Profiles. Any ideas where the history is stored for the non-default Profiles? I would have guessed in ~/Library/Safari, but all I can there is the standard history.db
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The fact that after EU passed Digital Markets Act, non-Chrome/Safari browsers begin to increase their share, shows that even a watered down law can make a difference. That's not to say it's all over – on the contrary, it's important to push further and make sure Apple/Google truly give people the choice – but the signs are so far positive https://www.reuters.com/technology/eus-new-tech-laws-are-working-small-browsers-gain-market-share-2024-04-10/
To recap: using the native #Discord client on #macOS, each time my partner opens a stream, her #MacBook Air would slow to a crawl or even crash entirely, and she'd need to reboot and just no longer able to watch the stream, other than to switch to her PC.
The (shocking) solution: on her MacBook, use Discord through #Firefox instead. I doubt that it needs to be Firefox, perhaps #Safari would do too, but she used Discord on Firefox and her Mac's able to watch streams on Discord just fine now. She even said she's never experienced Discord this smoothly on her Mac before lol so if anyone has had any issues with Discord on their Mac recently, maybe try using the web client instead.
I think it’s a bit weird to be drawing comparisons between #Safari and #InternetExplorer. Safari doesn’t and likely will never have the web browser market share and thus complete dominance that IE had. Its market share is tiny in comparison. A better comparison would be the #Chrome browser and the engine itself built on (yes it’s important to include the engine too) and you’ll see that Google’s dominance is more far reaching than Safari on iOS and is probably on the same level as IE back in the day at this point.
The “browser choice” warriors love to focus on iOS and ignore the bigger issue of the dominance of the #Chromium engine in the wider web browser market. All it’s doing is handing the keys of the web over to Google.
Niestety świetna przeglądarka #ArcBrowser staje się gorsza. Aby pozyskać fundusze bedą rozwijać narzędzia AI, czyli będą sprzedawać dane swoich użytkowników. Już kilka tygodni temu zrezygnowałem z używania tej przeglądarki właśnie przez ostatnie aktualizacje wprowadzające niepotrzebne narzędzia AI, zamiast uprzyjemnić przeglądanie internetu. Teraz czara goryczy się przelała i usuwam ją całkowicie! Wracam na stałe do #Safari.
Another urgent request from the Maasai of Tanzania to sign and/or SHARE the petition "Tanzania: Stop the eviction of the Maasai". It has been running since 2022 and initially seemed successful: https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/maasai_evictions_sg_loc
Current appeal [slightly shortened]:
"In a matter of days, 27,000 Maasai could lose their ancestral land! Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan wants to clear the Maasai homeland for #safaris and trophy hunting in the hope of immense profits. A few years ago, 3 million signatories stood up for the Maasai - and the president at the time listened to us. Now they are asking for support again."
I'm at an EU workshop for Apple to discuss and justify its DMA compliance plans. They've been forced into 3 huge u-turns by EU (killing PWAs, removing Epic Games' developer licenses, sideloading) so I'm interested to see their demeanour. Will it be humility, or the usual 'fuck you, we're Apple'? There are people from EU companies that Apple blithely planned to bankrupt by sneakily removing PWAs here. And regulators have human feelings too; no-one like "fuck you". I'll be here all day (try the baguettes!)
When Chromium comes in to play and Brave, Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, etc. start moving away from #WebKit, there is very little incentive for Apple to continue maintaining it for just their browser share.
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They can keep #Safari as a brand, just like Chrome / Brave / Opera and ditch the development cost in favour of better marketing budgets.
Our goal is to make SimpleLogin aliases easy to implement into your online routines. This is why we have developed browser extensions for all major browsers like #Firefox#Safari#googlechrome, #MicrosoftEdge and @brave :
the state of #Apple#Safari browser is just embarrassing, I have tried living with it again and there are so many sites that don't properly work with it. All of them fine on firefox and chrome btw, so no, it is not the website....
#Safari is the true successor to internet explorer...
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Elephant kills 80-year-old US tourist in Zambia (www.bbc.com)
The unnamed woman died of her injuries after an elephant flipped her car over several times.