Apple announced a series of new software features at the Worldwide Developers' Congress (Worldwide Developers Conference) on Monday. In addition to the upgraded animojis and upcoming iOS 12, the company announced a more radical innovation.
The next version of Apple's Safari browser will address the ad tracking and impression techniques of devices used by advertising agencies and data brokers to track web users while browsing. Apple seems to have started with Facebook.
Η επόμενη έκδοση του Safari θα σας ειδοποιήσει ρητά όταν ένας ιστότοπος προσπαθεί να αποκτήσει πρόσβαση στα cookie ή σε άλλα δεδομένα που είναι αποθηκευμένα στον υπολογιστή σας και θα σας επιτρέπει να αποφασίσετε αν το επιτρέπετε ή όχι. Είναι ένα ευπρόσδεκτο χαρακτηριστικό που προσφέρει σαφείς επιλογές για την παρακολούθηση στο διαnetwork.
The upcoming Safari will be pitted against the so-called fingerprinting tracking method, which advertising companies use to collect information from Appliances of users – such as how they are set up, the fonts they have installed and the addons they are running. All this extra information gives an individual and recognizable identity.
In the upcoming macOS Mojave and iOS 12, Safari will clean up many of these data, exposing only general configuration information and default fonts.
"Data companies are smart and relentless," Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, said Monday, explaining why Apple decided to add those features. The company calls all the tools "Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.0."
Η new edition of Safari will also help improve codes access offering tools to create strong passwords, autofill and save them.
The browser will also check the reuse of passwords to discourage users from using the same code access to many services.
The new features add to the features of last year's Safari update that prevented automatic video and audio playback. However, this year's updates are trying to ward off tracking techniques.
Apple is not the only company that has such tools in its browser for privacy and security.
As with Chrome's Do Not Track, Apple seems to have taken some of the new Safari protections from the Mozilla Foundation, which offers protection features in the Firefox browser.
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