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Re:Sensor Tower owns ad blocker and VPN apps that collect us... by thewebcount on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @05:30PM (#22539927)
> So now you have only 2 option in Safari - allow ALL cookies or block all cookies.

Didn't they make blocking of 3rd party cookies the default? If I browse privately and look at the cookies on my machine by going to Prefs > Privacy > Manage Web Site Data, I don't see any cookies showing up after I've closed a page.

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Re:Sensor Tower owns ad blocker and VPN apps that collect us... by webmobdev on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @06:56PM (#22540817)
The gist of my argument is that you have to cede control to them and trust them, for something that we could explicitly do before.
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