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The other side of the coin of content filtering is the possibility of snooping and data exfiltration.
by barrkel 6y ago
The other side of the coin of content filtering is the possibility of snooping and data exfiltration.
- consumer451 6y ago> The other side of the coin of content filtering is the possibility of snooping and data exfiltration. I am relatively naive in this realm, but this is why I chose Firefox Focus as my iOS Safari context blocker. Firefox Focus also seems like a great browser to have set as the default in apps like Apollo.
- newscracker 6y agoOn iOS, the content blocking model has never exposed one’s browsing history to the blocking extensions. Whether it’s Firefox Focus or some other content blocker enabled in Safari settings (you can enable more than one), the extensions can only provide a set of URL patterns that the underlying Safari browser engine (used by Firefox Focus and every other browser on iOS) will match with requests and block. No information —about which URLs were visited or matched with the blocking rules or which ones were blocked — is ever known to the content blocker app/extension.