What is Reddit's opinion of
Safari?
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11 reviews of this app found across Reddit:
Happen to have a link for that... Apple's whitepaper on Safari privacy specifically makes it clear that they do not harvest data from it, and will only report analytics/usage statistics for improving the app if you've specifically opted in to do so.
Safari source: https://webkit.org
Safari privacy: https://www.apple.com/safari/docs/Safari_White_Paper_Nov_2019.pdf
> Safari has been designed from the ground up to protect user privacy. Key privacy features like Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) and fingerprinting defense are turned on by default, so there is no need to make changes in Settings or Safari preferences to benefit from these privacy protections.
>Safari minimizes the amount of data collected by Apple and shared with third parties. Where possible, Safari’s privacy protections are designed to process data on device.
Btw, fun fact: Chromium engine is a fork of Webkit
Thank you for the explanation, but saying MacOS doesn't do that is going against their own website.
Now, does Apple "get away" with this because they make and sell the Hardware and OS as one unit?
Safari has excellent anti-fingerprinting measures. You can read about it in Apple's white paper. They make every effort to present identical configurations across devices so that you device does not stand out.
GrapheneOS tries to do this as well. When using its stock browser, Vanadium, it presents as a stock Pixel running Chrome. You blend in with every other Pixel/Chrome user. Running Firefox makes you stand out like a flashing beacon because Pixel/Firefox users are so much rarer. You'd be better off using Chrome at that point.
>We do not recommend using iCloud Sync, which saves your bookmarks and history in a way which allows Apple to view them
I utterly surprised to know that Apple can view them. Yet to my knowledge, My Safari Bookmarks & password are protected by my Apple ID, you only can share data with Apple when you have an issue with their products.
Apple ID as you mentioned in your post is E2EE, I mean all your iCloud is E2EE.
Can you please read this Safari Privacy Overview
How does that make me plain wrong?
Safari automatically sends sanitized output data each time someone tries to fingerprint you too. Which means that your unique hash is the same as every other safari browser. Which makes you very hard to fingerprint. (source)
>In addition to blocking cookie-based tracking, Safari works to prevent advertisers and websites from using the unique combination of characteristics of a device to create a “fingerprint” to track the user online. Some of these characteristics include the device and browser configuration and the fonts and plug-ins that have been installed. To combat fingerprinting, Safari presents a simplified version of the system configuration to trackers so more devices look identical, making it harder to single one out. And unlike some other browsers, Safari doesn’t add any custom tracking headers or unique identifiers to web requests. On other browsers, these headers can include things like location, sign-in status, account information, features enabled, and other data that can be used for cross-site tracking.
>With macOS, Safari no longer supports most plug-ins, so they can’t be used to attempt to uniquely identify a user. Fingerprinting protection is built into Safari and doesn’t require any user action. Together, these anti-fingerprinting protections make a user’s device look much more like other devices, providing “herd immunity” that dramatically reduces data companies’ ability to identify a single device uniquely—and all without compromising the web-browsing experience. Apple believes the role of the web browser is to act as an agent on behalf of the user. This means that Safari will continue to evolve to prevent new forms of tracking.
https://www.apple.com/safari/docs/Safari_White_Paper_Nov_2019.pdf
privacy has a price
If I had to guess I'd say it's because Google Chrome is faster for Windows and other operating systems, not mac. Mac has it's own built-in browser which is Safari and Apple says that it's faster than any browser Windows has with amazingly fast javascript, which krunker.io runs of.
Source: https://www.apple.com/safari/
What browser did you use?
Did you do the offer on a mobile phone or laptop/computer?
Did you turn off any ad block or anti-tracking app/extension before doing the offer?
I use the Google Chrome Browser and haven't had any issues with tracking on any offers I've done on Swagbucks.
I only do offers on my laptop. It seems as if many have issues with doing offers via a smartphone.
I also don't have any ad blocker or anti-tracking extensions installed.
Browsers I would avoid using if you're doing an offer:
The Safari browser has built-in tracking prevention. "Intelligent Tracking Prevention. Remember when you looked at that green mountain bike online? And then saw annoying green mountain bike ads everywhere you browsed? Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind. So your browsing stays your business." https://www.apple.com/safari/
Opera has their own built-in ad blocker. "With a built-in ad blocker and VPN, our free web browser for Windows brings you more speed and privacy." https://www.opera.com/computer
Firefox has built-in tracking protection that blocks online trackers. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
>I love chrome cause it's so minimal looking.
I disagree. The non-native two-tone top is less minimal to me than Safari.
Scroll down for a quick overview of the powersaving: https://www.apple.com/safari/
Basically, it's smart about not worrying about content that isn't visible.