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Couldn't Apple's ATT be enforced at a technical level, giving poisoned information such as XPrivacy did in its heydays, or by preventing JS injection in webview
by stevewatson301 4y ago
Couldn't Apple's ATT be enforced at a technical level, giving poisoned information such as XPrivacy did in its heydays, or by preventing JS injection in webviews?
- wilde 4y agoEh, if they're going to do that I'd rather they just force developers to use normal Safari for external links. It'd be easier to verify and I'd get to finally keep my cookies and not log in to news sites for the 100th time.
- alkonaut 4y agoApple could still targhet specific endpoints deliberately for repeeat offenders also in the normal Safari. They could have a privacy feature (default on) which blocks or poisons specific endpoints on specific hosts belonging to e.g. Meta, Alphabet, ByteDance. Apple are in a unique position here to protect users' privacy since they control the browser of so many. It's unfortunate that they also have their own advertising agenda so any steps they take will always be scrutinzed as being anti competitive and simply making their own ads more profitable. But I'd still want Apple to pull the trigger on more drastic measures like these. The last round of privacy isolation should just be the start. I'd love to see apple e.g. block Facbook ads inside the facebook app and refer to privacy concerns and only unblock them if Meta follows all privacy guidelines elsewhere.
- wilde 4y ago> It's unfortunate that they also have their own advertising agenda so any steps they take will always be scrutinzed as being anti competitive Right? If they actually cared about privacy they’d forego revenue for it. Sadly it’s just for marketing.
- Aulig 4y agoPreventing JS injection would make lots of legitimate use cases impossible. I really hope Apple doesn't punish all developers for Facebook's actions.