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Re:Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari by ocdtrekkie on Monday June 05, 2017 @03:38PM (#14490764)
Going to my IE right now to activate it, I have to say this is a janky solution. It opens the Add-ons window, where you can see you have no Tracking Protection Lists. Then you can click to browse the add-on gallery for them, and then you have to scroll down and pick a list from a set of options.

While this is flexible, open, and that's all good, the lack of a common sense default and a multi-step setup process is probably why like... even I am not using this right now.

If Apple does this by default, it's gonna make a huge dent in Google Analytics' numbers, whereas probably almost nobody uses the feature in IE.

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Re:Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari by amt528 on Monday June 05, 2017 @06:25PM (#14492802)
If you're interested, I created and maintain a tracking protection list based on the Ghostery and Disconnect filter lists. It's concise, fast, and better than anything in the IE gallery. https://amtopel.github.io/tpl/
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Re:Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari by ocdtrekkie on Monday June 05, 2017 @06:28PM (#14492829)
IE isn't really a browser I use heavily personally. Has Microsoft carried the feature forward to Edge, or are they relying on extensions from the Store for that?
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Re:Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari by amt528 on Monday June 05, 2017 @06:31PM (#14492856)
They discontinued it in Edge, unfortunately.
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Re:Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari by addicted on Monday June 05, 2017 @07:33PM (#14493312)
But you can install extensions like ghostery that so the same things in edge
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Re:Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari by PokeAcer on Monday June 05, 2017 @07:53PM (#14493462)
But you shouldn't have to install extensions to do this..
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Re:Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari by tpush on Monday June 05, 2017 @04:01PM (#14491143)
"it's gonna make a huge dent in Google Analytics' numbers".

Very unlikely, since almost nobody uses desktop Safari.

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Re:Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari by cpeterso on Monday June 05, 2017 @04:12PM (#14491317)
This feature will surely show up in iOS Safari, which would have a big impact.
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Re:Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari by alwillis on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @01:28AM (#14494960)
It's already in iOS 11 beta: https://twitter.com/webkit/status/871834286286139392
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Re:Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari by gchokov on Monday June 05, 2017 @05:58PM (#14492579)
Lol.
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Re:Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari by alwillis on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @01:27AM (#14494957)
It’s obviously not true that nobody uses Safari on Apple’s laptops and desktops.

Apple’s Mac sales have doubled since 2008 and is in the top 5 when it comes to PC shipments: http://www.asymco.com/2016/11/02/wherefore-art-thou-macintos...

Shipping ~30 million Macs a year certainly isn't almost nobody.

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Re:Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari by piyush_soni on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @03:26AM (#14495409)
He isn't talking about the number of macs sold though. Market share of Desktop Safari according to NetMarketShare [0] in May 2017 was 3.56%.

[0] : https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr...

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Re:Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari by alwillis on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @01:40PM (#14499241)
Web advertising is such a cutthroat and low margin business that having 2–3% of all browser users become untrackable is a big deal.

Safari on iOS obviously has significantly higher market share on mobile and the intelligent tracker blocking is part of iOS 11 beta.

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Re:Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari by piyush_soni on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @10:54PM (#14503365)
Yes, it will be a big deal when it comes to mobile.
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