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Apple Beefs Up Its Fraudulent Website Warning With iOS 14.5 With an Added Layer of Privacy FOLLOW US ON: Apple has a feature that alerts users when theyre about to visit a website that is known to host malware, or is believed to be a phishing site. This feature is getting an update with iOS 14.5 in order to better protect users privacy. Till now, the technique involved a check of a database hosted on Google servers, but with iOS 14.5, it now uses an Apple proxy. This is intended to add an extra...

IOS 14.5 is currently in beta.

Another privacy improvement from Cupertino, just a small one Share Copy Apples forthcoming iOS 14.5 release, currently in beta, will conceal the IP address of Safari web surfers from Googles Safe Browsing service, integrated into Safari to spot fraudulent websites. On Wednesday, Maciej Stachowiak, head of WebKit engineering at Apple, confirmed the change via Twitter, stating that "in the new iOS beta, Safari does indeed proxy the service via Apple servers to limit the risk of informatio...

What you need to know Apple has confirmed it is redirecting Google Safe Browsing traffic in iOS 14.5 through its own servers to better protect user info. Apples head of WebKit engineering has confirmed that Safari is now redirecting Google Safe Browsing traffic through its own servers to protect user information in iOS 14. Commenting on a recent The 8-bit article, Maciej Stachowiak, Apples head of WebKit stated: This article is a bit confused on the details of how Safe Browsing works, but in th...

Apple has confirmed that the new beta release of iOS 14 passes Google Safe Browsing requests through Apples own servers to prevent user data being returned to Google.

Apple has confirmed that the new beta release of iOS 14 passes Google Safe Browsing requests through Apple's own servers to prevent user data being returned to Google.

Web advertising giant says it has been working with filter makers, others to evolve the platform Share Copy Google, which makes most of its money from online ads, insists it wants ad blockers to continue working under the latest, more locked-down iteration of its Chrome browser extension platform, known as Manifest v3. "We have been working closely with the developers of many extensions – including ad blockers, shopping extensions, productivity enhancements, developer tools, and more ...