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Re:Popular iPhone apps caught sending user location data to ... by saagarjha on Saturday September 08, 2018 @01:00AM (#17939493)
Safari extensions can do the same, both on macOS on iOS (though significantly reduced, since loading the extension requires user interaction).
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Re:Popular iPhone apps caught sending user location data to ... by MBCook on Saturday September 08, 2018 @10:31AM (#17940967)
My understanding was you couldn’t even have extensions on iOS, except for ad blocker style things which are explicitly limited by API to prevent blocker from knowing what it was blocking due to tracking concerns.

I may be wrong about safari on Mac iOS.

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Re:Popular iPhone apps caught sending user location data to ... by saagarjha on Saturday September 08, 2018 @11:28PM (#17944186)
No, there are extensions for both macOS and iOS. For iOS the user needs to explicitly tap the extension for each page they want it work on, while on macOS it can run on every page once it’s been approved.
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