Chrome is Not the Standard

Re:Chrome is Not the Standard by stephenr on Thursday December 21, 2017 @01:03PM (#15981164)

Please tell me how Safari or Apple in general works against consumer privacy protection?

This is yet again a too-simplistic view of things that seems very common with Americans.

Some big companies do unethical things, and you translate that to "all big companies hate consumers and want to eat their children"

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Re:Chrome is Not the Standard by danieldk on Thursday December 21, 2017 @01:59PM (#15981733)

Please tell me how Safari or Apple in general works against consumer privacy protection?

Safari is pretty good at privacy protection. Apple doesn't really have an interest in collecting your data and they have a history of implementing features improving privacy (cross-site tracking protection, build-in adblock API, etc.).

The problem is that Safari is only available to the wealthiest in the world.

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Re:Chrome is Not the Standard by seanp2k2 on Thursday December 21, 2017 @02:46PM (#15982162)

Not technically Safari but https://webkitgtk.org is a thing and WebKit itself is open source: https://github.com/WebKit/webkit

“”” WebKit is a cross-platform web browser engine. On iOS and macOS, it powers Safari, Mail, iBooks, and many other applications. “””

Midori is also based on WebKit: http://midori-browser.org

AFAIK Safari does not provide more privacy protections than WebKit.

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Re:Chrome is Not the Standard by alwillis on Friday December 22, 2017 @10:12AM (#15987965)

Some of Safari’s privacy protection (Intelligent Tracking Prevention: https://webkit.org/blog/7675/intelligent-tracking-prevention...) uses APIs in iOS and macOS that aren’t part of WebKit.

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Re:Chrome is Not the Standard by seanp2k2 on Thursday December 21, 2017 @02:41PM (#15982108)

“””In the recent history of management ideas, few have had a more profound — or pernicious — effect than the one that says corporations should be run in a manner that “maximizes shareholder value.””””

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/09/09/how-t...

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Re:Chrome is Not the Standard by calibration263 on Thursday December 21, 2017 @02:57PM (#15982269)

Also related, Tim Cook in a shareholder meeting after a proposal to remove environmental policies/focus: "We do things because they are right and just and that is who we are. That’s who we are as a company. I don’t…when I think about human rights, I don’t think about an ROI. When I think about making our products accessible for the people that can’t see or to help a kid with autism, I don’t think about a bloody ROI, and by the same token, I don’t think about helping our environment from an ROI point of view. ... If you only want me to make things, make decisions that have a clear ROI, then you should get out of the stock"

http://mashable.com/2014/02/28/apple-ceo-tim-cook-climate-ch...

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