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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: 0.233s | source
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phkahler ◴[29 Jun 20 13:32 UTC] No.23677378[source]▶
Those APIs should not exist. Web site creators need to stop acting like they are entitled to access whatever they want on someone's computer.

I dont care about your unique SaS usecase, these are invasive. Make a native app if that's what you need.

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tgv ◴[29 Jun 20 13:38 UTC] No.23677439[source]▶
IMO, it's not the web-developers, it's the web-site owners. The devs (well, the small sample I know) is not interested in collecting user information to make a better fingerprint.
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1. cptskippy ◴[29 Jun 20 14:51 UTC] No.23678109[source]▶
It's usually marketing teams who aren't thinking about privacy implications, just how to perpetuate or further engagement.

Seemingly innocuous features they devise to streamline engagement often come with huge privacy implications and I've had to shoot down ideas many times in my career that were well into the realm of creepy.