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Safari Browser in iOS 12 and macOS Mojave to Feature Enhanced Privacy Tools

safari icon In iOS 12 and macOS Mojave, Apple's Safari browser will include some powerful new privacy features. When viewing sites in Safari, "like" and "share" social media buttons, as well as comment fields, embedded on pages will be prevented from automatically tracking users until they're interacted with.

When users do interact with these items, they'll be shown an alert warning them that they may then be tracked.

There will also be new security measures to prevent digital fingerprinting, or the use of things like installed fonts and plug-ins to help track users across the internet even with privacy settings active. Websites will be given a stripped down, simplified system configuration so every user's Mac looks like every other user's Mac.

Safari will also gain new password organizing features that automatically creates and stores passwords and flags reused passwords between sites so they can be changed.

The new Safari will be released this fall for iOS and macOS.

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Top Rated Comments

Frederik on MacRumors Avatar
102 months ago
That is exactly the way apple should go. Security for everyone!
Score: 16 Votes (Like | Disagree)
DaveP Avatar
102 months ago
I currently use plugins to get this behavior. I think it is a major plus that this will be the default.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Brad9893 Avatar
102 months ago
The fact that Safari 12 will support favicons in tabs in huge. Safari is the best browser on the Mac for battery life, but I never used it because of this one little thing. This will finally make the browser usable for me! Dark mode is just the cherry on top. :)
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
102 months ago
Privacy is the true killer feature, not Animojis
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Rudy69 Avatar
102 months ago
I love Apple's focus on web privacy. Quite often it ends up benefiting everyone because these changes slowly trickle down to other browsers.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
tennisproha Avatar
102 months ago
Considering the gigabytes of information most users world wide have probably already been collected and stored, this may be closing the barn door after all the horses have escaped.
Well at least you can prevent your replacement horsing from escaping in the future. Otherwise, you probably aren't a very good rancher.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)