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Re:Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari by ocdtrekkie on Monday June 05, 2017 @04:45PM (#14491795)
You are actually incorrect. Tracking Protection refers to an IE feature that lets you set "Tracking Protection Lists", which block traffic to specified domains and URLs. You can see a bit about them here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh273400(v=vs.85).a...

The whole "Do Not Track" default thing was, of course, a huge fiasco, as Google and others chose to ignore IE's default usage of it.

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Re:Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari by amt528 on Monday June 05, 2017 @06:22PM (#14492780)
I don't know why this has been downvoted. Tracking Protection Lists are one of the best and unsung features of IE. People don't realize that they're different from Do Not Track.
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Re:Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari by Flimm on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @08:27AM (#14496661)
Do you have to set it up manually? How is this better than downloading one of the privacy-protecting extensions available for most desktop browsers?
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Re:Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @12:12PM (#14498344)
Arguably, the fact that you don't have to trust a random third party extension code is a perk. And since this is a pretty straight up text file format it works off of, it's easy to roll your own or customize it as you wish.

As I said in one of my comments, it's a bit janky to set up because you have to select one of the Tracking Protection Lists from their add-on gallery to turn it on, there's no default list pre-selected.

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