Apple’s grudging accommodation of European antitrust rules by allowing third-party app stores on iPhones has left users of its Safari browser exposed to potential web activity tracking.
EU: demands changes to allow non-verifiable software
you missed the point of the article, its about apple basically giving users all their location data, and a hi vis jacket when shopping around such that anyone is allowed to access said information on where youve been. its apples fault for taping the website cookies to a unique identifier and allowing any website to access said list.
this has nothing to do with 3rd party apps, but how apple handles other stores in its own browser.
"Apple – which advertises Safari as “incredibly private” – evidently has undermined privacy among European Union Safari users through a marketplace-kit
Their platform is less secure because apple implemented side loading in a half assed way just so they can say that they comply. Computers and android phones have been doing this since forever without any major issues. I believe if the security of your platform relies on only installing apps from a single “trusted” source (that has an incentive to make money), then it’s not secure.
That’s not what’s said in the article. At all. What so ever.
The problem isn’t suddenly allowing third party browsers. It’s that Apple’s implementation to allow that in Safari sends out info about sites visited with those app stores. It allows snooping of what 3rd party things people use.
No, the problem is with APPLE’S IMPLEMENTATION of HOW Apple allows third party stores through Safari. NOT with third party browsers themselves. Please learn to read.
Well that’s just Apple “innovation”. You’re clearly not brilliant enough to understand the long term plan of greedy moronsApple.
I’d argue the problem isn’t “browsers”, but Apple’s closed ecosystem clashing with a more secured internet. They do not need to do it this way, which makes it their fault.
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EU: demands changes to allow non-verifiable software
Apple: disagrees, but allows it
platform browser less secure
TheRegister: Damned Apple!!
Here let me fix that for you
you missed the point of the article, its about apple basically giving users all their location data, and a hi vis jacket when shopping around such that anyone is allowed to access said information on where youve been. its apples fault for taping the website cookies to a unique identifier and allowing any website to access said list.
this has nothing to do with 3rd party apps, but how apple handles other stores in its own browser.
The problem is not the EU demanding that, it rather is Apples blatant incompetence at implementing it
It’s not incompetence, it’s maliciousness
Their platform is less secure because apple implemented side loading in a half assed way just so they can say that they comply. Computers and android phones have been doing this since forever without any major issues. I believe if the security of your platform relies on only installing apps from a single “trusted” source (that has an incentive to make money), then it’s not secure.
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That’s not what’s said in the article. At all. What so ever.
The problem isn’t suddenly allowing third party browsers. It’s that Apple’s implementation to allow that in Safari sends out info about sites visited with those app stores. It allows snooping of what 3rd party things people use.
So maybe that’s why they didn’t want to allow that?
No, the problem is with APPLE’S IMPLEMENTATION of HOW Apple allows third party stores through Safari. NOT with third party browsers themselves. Please learn to read.
The problem here - the ONLY problem - is using a fucking browser to do everything, instead of… you know, browsing.
An app store app should be installed as an app. It has no business being specially handled by a browser.
That’s what you get when you turn browsers into mini operating systems: the thing’s attack surface increases by orders of magnitude.
Well that’s just Apple “innovation”. You’re clearly not brilliant enough to understand the long term plan of
greedy moronsApple.I’d argue the problem isn’t “browsers”, but Apple’s closed ecosystem clashing with a more secured internet. They do not need to do it this way, which makes it their fault.
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