Apple Safari Beats Chrome To Be The Safest Web Browser For You
Dhir Acharya
With stricter third-party blocking features, Apple Safari has beat all other browsers, even Chrome, to become the safest place for you to surf the web.
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Apple has now rolled out Safari 13.1 with stricter blocking features against third-parties that protect users from being identified by websites and prevent the tracking of their web activity. This makes Safari the best browser of all to stop third-party trackers, as well as the first browser to beat Chrome in blocking third-party cookies.
The detailed changes are posted in the latest developer blog on WebKit, but this article will summarize the most important thing in the easiest way to understand to regular users. Now, the Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) of Apple’s Safari will block all third-party cookies, and this blocking action is by default. When the tech giant introduced ITP in 2017, it allowed some exceptions, but sites took advantage of that to identify users using what was being blocked then track users’ activity. Besides, the exceptions helped third parties fingerprint users from other sites that users were signed into, even if the most stringent privacy settings were enabled.
With Safari 13.1, ITP will now prevent all third parties from tracking as well as disabling these workarounds. Though some data will still be stored, the way sites access users’ cookie storage is now different from before. Additionally, all the store data that’s script-writeable will be deleted automatically after seven days.
These changes are great news and crucial for Safari users, and other companies should follow this move to change their browsers. As per Google, the company says a similar change will launch on Chrome by 2022. However, Brave, Tor, and among other browsers still allow for exceptions though this may cause them bad reputations.
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