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When It Comes to Privacy, Safari Is Only the Fourth-Best Browser
Apple's elaborate new ad campaign promises that Safari is "a browser that protects your privacy." And the Washington Post says Apple "deserves credit for making many privacy protections automatic with Safari..." "But Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Pr...
Even without cookies, a website can pull information like the resolution of your computer screen, the fonts you have installed, add-on software you use and other technical details that in aggregate can help identify your device and what you're doing on it. Apple says it defends against common fingerprinting techniques but Cahn said Firefox, Brave and the Tor Browser all are better at protecting you from digital surveillance. It also steps up defenses against tracking that adds bits of identifying information to the web links you click."
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