Does Your iPhone's Safari Browser Privacy Features Actually Make You Safer?
Safari limits tracking by default, but private browsing still has limitations.
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The iPhone's default Safari browser has gained a reputation for being private, especially as an alternative to Chrome for those who don't want to turn over their entire life history to Google. According to the Safari info page, the browser blocks third-party cookies by default, uses machine learning to limit cross-site tracking, hides your IP address from known trackers and removes identifying info from certain URLs. In 2019, Apple published a white paper covering the full range of Safari's privacy capabilities if you're interested in the details.
All these features are important because advertising and data-broker networks (and by extension, the FBI)are itching to gobble up your private data. Tracking info often follows you throughout unrelated sites, searches, purchases and profile visits. Safari helps by cutting most of these data leeches off at the knees,...
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