Apple’s grudging accommodation of European antitrust rules by allowing third-party app stores on iPhones has left users of its Safari browser exposed to potential web activity tracking.
EU: demands changes to allow non-verifiable software
Apple: disagrees, but allows it
platform browser less secure
TheRegister: Damned Apple!!
The problem is not the EU demanding that, it rather is Apples blatant incompetence at implementing it
"Apple – which advertises Safari as “incredibly private” – evidently has undermined privacy among European Union Safari users through a marketplace-kit
It’s not incompetence, it’s maliciousness
Here let me fix that for you
EU: demands changes to allow non-verifiable software
Apple:
disagrees, but allows itdoes half assed job to try and make regulations look bad for its usersplatform browser less secure
TheRegister: Damned Apple!!
That’s not what’s said in the article. At all. What so ever.
The problem isn’t suddenly allowing third party browsers. It’s that Apple’s implementation to allow that in Safari sends out info about sites visited with those app stores. It allows snooping of what 3rd party things people use.
Apple: “SeE WhAt YoU MaDe mE Do!”
So maybe that’s why they didn’t want to allow that?
No, the problem is with APPLE’S IMPLEMENTATION of HOW Apple allows third party stores through Safari. NOT with third party browsers themselves. Please learn to read.
Their platform is less secure because apple implemented side loading in a half assed way just so they can say that they comply. Computers and android phones have been doing this since forever without any major issues. I believe if the security of your platform relies on only installing apps from a single “trusted” source (that has an incentive to make money), then it’s not secure.
well said
