At Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference this year, the buzz was all about software. One key announcement was a radical update to the Safari browser—one that thumbs its nose directly at data-hungry Facebook. Building on last year’s ad-tech fighting updates, Safari is now getting a suite of of new security features that will alert you whenever a website tries to hoover up data, and it will stop data companies from ‘fingerprinting’ your Mac by disguising your choice of fonts and configurations so your machine is indistinguishable from anybody else’s. “Apple specifically called out Facebook's massive ad network—which is known for employing an array of user tracking strategies, like its ubiquitous ‘Like’ buttons. Safari will now block tracking from “Like” and “Share” buttons, as well as from comment fields.
(Wired, June 14, 2018)
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