Wired:
The newest version of Apple’s Safari browser will push back hard against the ad-tracking methods and device fingerprinting techniques that marketers and data brokers use to monitor web users as they browse. Starting with Facebook.
The next version of Safari will explicitly prompt you when a website tries to access your cookies or other data, and let you decide whether to allow it, a welcome step toward explicit choices about online tracking.
Would these changes make you use Safari if you don’t right now?
I still don’t get the Mac users who don’t use Safari. I have Chrome on my machines for testing, and a couple of development extensions, but Safari hasn’t failed me in several years. It’s so fast, and so much more energy efficient than anything else.
Will we stop going to iMore because it complains about ad blockers every time we arrive?
I don’t understand why Chrome isn’t considered by more people to be the IE6 of the current Internet. Way too many websites are designed specifically for Chrome, and that is bad, just as bad as being designed for IE6.
I browse with Safari, but there remain a great majority of javascript developers who use chrome (and don’t sufficiently test using other browsers). If a javascript form doesn’t work, use chrome: it will. That’s stupid and lazy, but it remains true.
Apple really needs to bring Safari back to the PC and also android. These are the kinds of features that could really differentiate it asymmetrically, that is, in ways the competition beholden to advertising just never could follow
It’s a start.
And if you’re using Chrome, you’re being conned by Google.