Technology company Apple is known for its privacy and security, although questions are always raised about the security and privacy of Google's mobile operating system Android. Apart from this, now Google has taken a big flaw in Apple's Safari browser while circumventing Apple. The same Google has claimed that the anti-tracking feature of the Safari browser actually works for tracking.
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Anti-tracking feature was working as tracking
Google's Security Engineers have revealed in a report that there is a loophole (error) in the Safari browser that causes the privacy of the consumer in danger. By taking advantage of this, hackers can obtain personal information of the consumer from the Safari browser and misuse it. By taking advantage of this loophole of the Safari browser, hackers could see the browsing history of the consumer and websites could track the consumer's behavior, though Apple has now fixed this bug.
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There was a bug in Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP)
Google's report said that there was a bug in the Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) of the Safari browser that was working in the opposite direction. As an example, the Intelligent Tracking Prevention feature is given to protect the consumer from being tracked, although it was helping to track. Usually when you visit a website you are asked to allow cookies, but this is not the case with Safari. Safari does not allow cookies to be found on any website, but due to this bug, websites started getting cookies.
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Questions have been raised earlier on the privacy of Safari
This is not the first time that the Safari browser privacy has been questioned. Earlier last year, there was a feature in the Safari browser called Two Not Track which was later removed by Apple. By taking advantage of this feature, websites were tracking people easily.