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Well, you seem to have better knowledge of Apple than me, so I'll bow to your knowledge. I had the feeling that Apple's privacy stance was privacywashing, but i

by Yoric 7y ago

Well, you seem to have better knowledge of Apple than me, so I'll bow to your knowledge. I had the feeling that Apple's privacy stance was privacywashing, but if it is serious, that's great. To return to the initial point, though, the reason for which Mozilla hasn't shaken the web as much as it wants in terms of privacy is that it doesn't have Apple's sole-king-of-iOS position. Whenever the web breaks on Firefox, users blame Firefox. Whenever it breaks on iOS, users blame the web. So Firefox needs to be smart and intentional. It's hard and slow work, but things improve :)

om2 7y ago
Mac Safari doesn't have that kind of protection. Indeed, Firefox has higher global desktop browsing share than Safari. We found ways to add privacy without breaking the web by taking gradual steps and finding clever technical solutions. I appreciate Firefox getting on the privacy-by-default train, but it's just wrong to say that iOS gave us the ability to do something that others couldn't. Our only superpower was being willing to ignore those who said tracking protection would destroy the web economy and/or tank revenue (plus aforementioned crafty trickery).
- Drdrdrq 7y ago
  > Mac Safari doesn't have that kind of protection. It doesn't, but it has a brother that does (iOS Safari). So the leverage Apple has web is very strong, much stronger than that of Firefox.