FatCatThe DMA already having an impact. Brave Browser installs surge after introduction of browser choice splash screen on iOS.
OrangeCorvusYeah but Brave? Why not Firefox or Vivaldi.
RmDebArc_5Vivaldi is extremely slow on IOS and 2gb+ big. Firefox has no extensions so no Adblock. Generally there are few privacy friendly/Foss browsers on IOS.
abhibeckertIm, Safari is so privacy friendly that Google regularly asks me if I’m human. For example it has a built in VPN that doesn’t allow Google to see your IP address.
And 99.9% of the Safari’s code is FOSS.
GitHub - WebKit/WebKit: Home of the WebKit project, the browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux.
Home of the WebKit project, the browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux. - WebKit/WebKit
it’s definitely more pro-privacy than Brave or FireFox. I’ve never had to jump through a captcha to use Google in those browsers.
You have this backwards. Google showing you captchas is basically them saying they can’t match your browser to any know (shadow) profile they have already stored. So they aren’t sure you are a human and if so which one specifically. Getting harassed with a captcha is essentially like a badge of honour for your browsers privacy settings.
No they don’t, that’s exactly what they said. Safari makes them do CAPTCHAs so it is the most privacy friendly. It is true that it has better blocking features than Firefox on iOS (because Firefox doesn’t have extensions).
Oh you are right, I misread that. Thanks for pointing it out.
No problem