Apple Addresses HSTS User Tracking in WebKit

ronjor · Mar 20, 2018

By Ionut Arghire on March 20, 2018

Apple has added new protections to the WebKit framework to prevent possible abuse of the HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) security standard to track users.

HSTS offers a mechanism through which web sites declare themselves accessible only via secure connections and direct browsers to where that secure version resides. Basically, when a user attempts to connect to the insecure version of a website, HSTS forces the browser to go to the HTTPS version of the site instead.
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ronjor · Aug 15, 2019

WebKit’s new anti-tracking policy puts privacy on a par with security

Natasha Lomas@riptari
WebKit, the open source engine that underpins Internet browsers including Apple’s Safari browser, has announced a new tracking prevention policy that takes the strictest line yet on the background and cross-site tracking practices and technologies which are used to creep on Internet users as they go about their business online.
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JRViejo · Aug 20, 2019

The WebKit team has unveiled a new Tracking Prevention Policy that could help bolster privacy for users of Apple's Safari browser.
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Safari to ape Firefox, go all-in on anti-tracking by Gregg Keizer.

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