For my use case, I hope so. I generally don't browse on my phone, so if I'm opening up Safari on a public network, it's to a known site or bookmark to quickly

For my use case, I hope so. I generally don't browse on my phone, so if I'm opening up Safari on a public network, it's to a known site or bookmark to quickly reference something (e.g. transit map, exchange rate). It's totally possible an ad on the NYT or Bloomberg has some malicious Javascript, but currently I'm naively assuming otherwise. Also, I think many people on their phones will connect to a public hotspot just to check Facebook / Instagram / Snapchat these days and not much else.