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> The next release of macOS, macOS Mojave, will protect content like Safari History or cookies from apps, even those to which users have granted access to their

> The next release of macOS, macOS Mojave, will protect content like Safari History or cookies from apps, even those to which users have granted access to their home directory. What about other browsers?

erikpukinskis 8y ago
Owning an operating system means you get special treatment for your apps.
- ballenf 8y ago
  There's nothing to stop Chrome or Firefox from encrypting and/or obfuscating their history file.
  - saagarjha 8y ago
    There is nothing stopping an app from pretending to be Chrome or Firefox and decrypting the history file for themselves.
abrowne 8y ago
Just be thankful you can still use other browsers on Mac!
derefr 8y ago
Nope. See here for a better summary of the feature: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/332673/what-and-how-does-macos-mojave-implement-to-restrict-applications-access-to-pers https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/332673/what-and-ho... From my own experimentation in Terminal.app in Mojave, ~/Library/Safari is unreadable without granting permission, but I can read everything under ~/Library/Application Support/Google just fine. Probably Apple should expose a way for applications to register their data to be included in the protected data set.