Billions of users warned to quit Chrome as more shocking data harvesting is exposed...
for accelerometer access with Safari 13 in 2019. That followed research exposing the very same exploitation of such permission-less access by mobile websites that Chrome on Android still allows.that mobile websites were tapping into device sensors “for purposes other than what W3C standardization body had intended. We found that a vast majority of third-party scripts are accessing sensor data for measuring ad interactions, verifying ad impressions, and tracking devices.
If providing motion sensor data to websites was a real requirement, one so popular as to justify being on by default, then iPhone users would have inundated in recent years with that permission request. But they haven’t. Most will never have seen it. Not once. Google emphasizes the settings it offers to change default settings—to restrict location tracking in your account, to disable monitoring the time you spend away from your device, to switch off new privacy sandbox tracking features, to stop cross-site tracking, to disable third-party cookies, to block phone motion sensing. But there’s a theme—everything is switched on out of the box unless you actively find it and change it. Nothing is private by default.
We now await FLoC V2, as Google’s Privacy Sandbox continues to search for an impossible solution to protect user privacy without compromising the monetization of user data. My advice is not to wait and to opt for an alternative browser. On Apple you should use Safari, and 0n Android and other non-Apple platforms Firefox is a much better option, if you don’t want to opt for privacy-first DuckDuckGo or Brave.Apple has led the way with Safari in defaulting to privacy-centric options out of the box.
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