Apple will soon treat online web tracking the same as a security vulnerability

Re:Apple will soon treat online web tracking the same as a s... by rhaksw on Sunday August 18, 2019 @04:56AM (#20729066)

Has anyone seen this error [1] before? A user reported seeing it the other day and I can't figure out if it was an issue with Safari, his ISP, or what. It only happens for him when connected via WiFi on mobile. My SSL certs are auto-updating and I manually refreshed them, yet he still sees this a day later. Thanks in advance!

[1] https://imgur.com/j63UaIR

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Re:Apple will soon treat online web tracking the same as a s... by mopsi on Sunday August 18, 2019 @08:29AM (#20729795)

Looks like DNS-level blocking from the WiFi gateway or ISP. When a blacklisted domain is requested, it gets IP pointing to the site with that notification, not the actual IP of the requested domain.

This can be overridden by manually setting DNS servers on the phone or computer to non-filtering public DNS servers, eg. 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8.

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Re:Apple will soon treat online web tracking the same as a s... by rhaksw on Sunday August 18, 2019 @09:52AM (#20730131)

Thanks! I didn't know American ISPs would blacklist domains so easily. I'm also going to try contacting Comcast as I can't figure out what is "dangerous" about the site. It's just client-side javascript that queries content from reddit's API.

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Re:Apple will soon treat online web tracking the same as a s... by mopsi on Sunday August 18, 2019 @10:59AM (#20730512)

It's probably blacklisted because it is only a single typo away from reddit.com.

You can expect domains like revddit.com or hotnail.com to get blocked by anti-phishing filters.

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Re:Apple will soon treat online web tracking the same as a s... by rhaksw on Sunday August 18, 2019 @10:27PM (#20734427)

I can prove that's not a typo people make, nobody visited the site for weeks when I first set it up =)

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