Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > > Apple and WebKit are very clear that their motivation is user privacy, and > in particular blocking the kind of third party tracking that Facebook and > Google use to target advertisements as we move around the web. The problem > is that local storage has been abused by advertisers ever since browsers > clamped down on cookies; it’s not possible to stop the bad guys from > abusing the feature without also blocking the good guys (otherwise the bad > guys would just pretend to be good guys). > > It sounds bleak at first, but it’s clear that the web has to continue to > evolve as if every participant was potentially malicious. The obstacle we > face at the moment is that the worlds leading browser is Chrome, a browser > explicitly engineered to further business interests of Google, and there’s > no chance that it will ever adopt the aggressive privacy protections > offered by Apple. (One can get an insight into how much of Chrome is > dubious from a privacy perspective by the long list of things that > Microsoft takes out or disables for Edge > https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/web-browsers/microsoft-edge/204585/these-are-the-features-microsoft-turned-off-or-replaced-in-chromium-based-edge >
That Edge "reduction list" is very enlightening! TT -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/d6bfb13e-2c4a-4c2a-bb1b-16bbc28a1132%40googlegroups.com.
