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Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns

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428 points coronadisaster | 1 comments | 29 Jun 20 10:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.329s | source
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philistine ◴[29 Jun 20 13:03 UTC] No.23677180[source]▶
I’ve heard so many people complain on HN about Safari’s lack of support for APIs. Before now, we didn’t have a public justification why Apple refused to implement them. Now we know.

The price of a Safari user in the ad market is going down, and it’s exactly what should be happening. I’m very happy with Apple.

https://9to5mac.com/2019/12/09/apple-safari-privacy-feature-...

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1. johncolanduoni ◴[29 Jun 20 13:24 UTC] No.23677333[source]▶
They didn’t mention the biggest one that people (including me) complain about, which is the push notification API. That’s intellectually honest of them (it inherently requires explicit permission before activating for a particular origin), but pointing to these far less likely to be used APIs is not making a good case for neutering PWAs on privacy grounds.