Apple has just released the latest update for your browser Safariand the most important thing this version 13.1 on macOS, and 13.4 in iPadOS and iOS have to do with ITP, that is to say, the smart protection against tracking that began to be implemented in 2017.
With this update, Safari has gone to block by default all third party cookies with the aim of improving the user’s privacy when browsing. This is something that Firefox already doesbut that Chrome, the browser most used in the world, it is just starting to consider.
What is this, and what are those cookies
Not all cookies are the same, and always we store cookies in the browser. These serve for many things, such as, for example, to save your preferences, login details, the products in the shopping cart, or for the web measure your audience.These cookies are from the same domain that we are visiting and are called “Same-Site“for the same reason.
However, other cookies are not in the same domain, but from third parties, and are used for many things, such as, for example, to rastrearnos, display personalised advertising, and to follow us on all sides to get to know our habits. These are called “Cross-Site“and are also called third-party cookies that Firefox, and Safari now block by default.
John Wilanderthe engineer of WebKit behind the ITP Safari, he explained the measure is a significant improvement for privacy as it eliminates any sense of exceptions or allow “a little bit of crawl cross-site”.
Also took the opportunity to mention that Chrome plans to do this also, but not until 2022. For the moment, Google began to add changes Chrome 80 to mark a before and an after, but instead of moving to directly block all third party cookies, are opting for a temporary solution to stockings to according to them “to preserve the privacy but maintain healthy in the website that survives based ads“.
Neither the business of Apple’s neither the Firefox is advertising, but the Google itself. Hence, the total blocking of third party cookies is not but planned to within at least two years, while they get “the best solution” for everything.
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The news
Apple updates Safari to block all third party cookies, two years before Google Chrome
it was originally published in
Engadget
by
Gabriela Gonzalez
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