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Safari to be removed from iOS 13 due to child pornography issues because some websites don’t have a filter
by wlesieutre 8y ago
Safari to be removed from iOS 13 due to child pornography issues because some websites don’t have a filter
- bitwize 8y agoApple apps automatically get an exemption from all App Store rules.
- jmull 8y agoI think the guideline applies to apps with user-generated content. Now, I'm sure you can come up with an argument about why this still applies to Safari... but it's also easy to come up with an argument about why it does not. Certainly, the relationship between the content and the app is much more tenuous for Safari -- where the content is everything published on the web by anyone -- and the Tumblr app, where the objectionable content is hosted by and for the Tumblr app. In the end, you can argue Apple should have drawn the line about responsibility for content in a different place, but clearly a reasonable line can be drawn that allows Safari but doesn't allow Tumblr (with a broken child-porn filter).
- alphabettsy 8y agoSafari has a site filter, Tumblr doesn’t. How effective filters are is another question, but Apple has long stated rules that apps must not provide access to “objectionable” content without some kind of access control which doesn’t seem to meaningfully exist on Tumblr.
- devwastaken 8y agoTumblr has NSFW filtering. You have to be logged in to see nafw tumblrs, and have it active on your settings, iirc.
- alphabettsy 8y agoI’m aware, I use it regularly. I’m also saying it doesn’t work.
- briandear 8y agoSafari doesn’t host content.