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Face ID and Touch ID for the Web
People often see passwords are the original sin of authentication on the web.
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What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit
Security researchers have recently uncovered security issues known as Meltdown and Spectre.
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WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy
Today we are publishing the WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy, covering: What types of tracking WebKit will prevent.
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Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.0
Note: Read about improvements to this technology in recent blog posts about Intelligent Tracking Prevention, and the Storage Access API.
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Full third-party cookie blocking and more
This blog post covers several enhancements to Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) in iOS and iPadOS 13.4 and Safari 13.1 on macOS to address our latest discoveries in the industry around tracking.
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Preventing Tracking Prevention Tracking
This blog post covers enhancements to Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) included in Safari on iOS and iPadOS 13.3, Safari 13.0.4 on macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra.
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Privacy-Preserving Ad Click Attribution for the Web
A typical website is made of numerous components coming from a wide variety of sources.
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Protecting Against HSTS Abuse
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is a security standard that provides a mechanism for web sites to declare themselves accessible only via secure connections, and to tell web browsers where to go to get that secure version.
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Private Browsing 2.0
When we invented Private Browsing back in 2005, our aim was to provide users with an easy way to keep their browsing private from anyone who shared the same device.
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Intelligent Tracking Prevention
Note: Read about improvements to this technology in recent blog posts about Intelligent Tracking Prevention, and the Storage Access API.
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Introduction to WebKit Content Blockers
Describing content blocking rules in a structured format ahead-of-time, rather than running extension-provided code.
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Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.1
Note: Read about past updates to this technology in other blog posts about Intelligent Tracking Prevention, and the Storage Access API.
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Tracking Prevention in WebKit
WebKit has implemented tracking prevention technologies, spanning from 2003 with Safari 1.0 until today.
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Tracking Prevention Policy
This document describes the web tracking practices that WebKit believes, as a matter of policy, should be prevented by default by web browsers.