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Jake Archibald

@jaffathecake
13 posts
2024-07-23
I'd love to know what caused Chrome to back away from this, given that Safari did it years ago. It looks really bad.
2024-07-23 View on X
Digiday

Google says it won't be “deprecating third-party cookies” in Chrome and will instead keep working on “privacy-preserving alternatives” via Privacy Sandbox APIs

After much back and forth, Google has decided to keep third-party cookies in its Chrome browser.

2023-06-13
Rishi Sunak says he wants to “turn the UK into the world's Web3 centre” — now largely accepted as a short-term grift to make the rich richer at the expense of others, Sunak came to power in 2022. https://www.reuters.com/...
2023-06-13 View on X
Axios

a16z plans to open a crypto-focused office in London and leads a $43M round in London-based Gensyn, which offers a decentralized compute network for training AI

Over the last year it has become clear that blockchains … Reuters : London crypto move is a sign of desperate times FinSMEs : Gensyn Raises £33.8M in Series A Funding Eli Dambel / ...

2023-02-22
Appearing to inject content into other companies' sites doesn't really sell the “trust of Microsoft” IMO https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-22 View on X
9to5Google

Microsoft appears to be injecting ads for Edge on a Google.com website when users download Chrome using the latest Edge Canary preview on Windows

Microsoft sees its browser as an important aspect and entry point for the new Bing.  Microsoft Edge on Windows is now showing a rather aggrieve ad …

2022-06-27
I see folks saying that, if Apple stopped banning other browser engines on iOS, Safari would lose all its users to Chrome, resulting in a browser monoculture. Here's an analysis of the data, looking at the current situation on macOS vs iOS https://infrequently.org/...
2022-06-27 View on X
Infrequently Noted

A deep dive: how Apple uses iOS WebKit monopoly to strip-mine and sabotage the web, hurting all browser engine projects and draining the web of future potential

the only platform that actually supports Safari *and* competing browsers. @satefan : An open letter to Tim Cook signed by all iOS browsers builders (big and small), an alliance, wr...

@migueldeicaza ... Is that something to aspire to? My dad used to build motorbikes on his own. The engine efficiency was awful, emissions were bad, safety was worse.
2022-06-27 View on X
Infrequently Noted

A deep dive: how Apple uses iOS WebKit monopoly to strip-mine and sabotage the web, hurting all browser engine projects and draining the web of future potential

the only platform that actually supports Safari *and* competing browsers. @satefan : An open letter to Tim Cook signed by all iOS browsers builders (big and small), an alliance, wr...

2022-02-27
@seldo This is why I'm uncomfortable with the calls for Apple to ban the app store in Russia. Feels like the citizens need encrypted messaging more than ever.
2022-02-27 View on X
Axios

The US, EU, UK, and Canada agree to cut off a “certain number of Russian banks” from the SWIFT international payments system

The European Union, U.S. and other Western nations on Saturday announced they would cut off a “certain number of Russian banks” from the SWIFT international …

@seldo This is why I'm uncomfortable with the calls for Apple to ban the app store in Russia. Feels like the citizens need encrypted messaging more than ever.
2022-02-27 View on X
Bloomberg

In a letter, Ukraine's vice prime minister Mykhailo Fedorov urges Tim Cook to halt Apple's product sales in Russia and shut down its App Store in the country

everyone? https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/... Jeff Moss / @thedarktangent : I've been talking about “app diplomacy” the past year or so where India bans Chinese a...

2022-02-26
@seldo This is why I'm uncomfortable with the calls for Apple to ban the app store in Russia. Feels like the citizens need encrypted messaging more than ever.
2022-02-26 View on X
Bloomberg

In a letter, Ukraine's vice prime minister Mykhailo Fedorov urges Tim Cook to halt Apple's product sales in Russia and shut down its App Store in the country

Mykhailo Fedorov, who serves as Ukraine's vice prime minister and oversees digital operations, urged Apple Inc. to halt product sales …

2022-01-17
@Arlen According to https://fingerprintjs.com/... it impacts all “active frames, tabs, and windows within the same browser session”
2022-01-17 View on X
FingerprintJS Blog

A flaw in Safari 15's IndexedDB API can leak browser activity and user identifiers, like Google ID, to other sites; Apple was alerted of the flaw on November 28

DISCLAIMER: FingerprintJS does not use this vulnerability in our products and does not provide cross-site tracking services. Source: The Verge .

This is a huge bug. On OSX, Safari users can (temporarily) switch to another browser to avoid their data leaking across origins. iOS users have no such choice, because Apple imposes a ban on other browser engines. https://safarileaks.com/
2022-01-17 View on X
FingerprintJS Blog

A flaw in Safari 15's IndexedDB API can leak browser activity and user identifiers, like Google ID, to other sites; Apple was alerted of the flaw on November 28

DISCLAIMER: FingerprintJS does not use this vulnerability in our products and does not provide cross-site tracking services. Source: The Verge .

This comes after other huge site-breaking bugs in IndexedDB https://bugs.webkit.org/... and localStorage https://twitter.com/... that took months to fix. It's so frustrating that iOS users just have to put up with this, and web developers have to jump through hoops to work around it
2022-01-17 View on X
FingerprintJS Blog

A flaw in Safari 15's IndexedDB API can leak browser activity and user identifiers, like Google ID, to other sites; Apple was alerted of the flaw on November 28

DISCLAIMER: FingerprintJS does not use this vulnerability in our products and does not provide cross-site tracking services. Source: The Verge .

2021-04-26
I only had a few interactions with this guy, and in every one he came across as thoughtful & smart. https://twitter.com/...
2021-04-26 View on X
CircleID

Dan Kaminsky, the celebrated security researcher widely known for his work on discovering crucial DNS security flaws and Sony Rootkit infections, has died at 42

Saddened by news of the death of Dan Kaminsky, a member of the ICANN Trusted … Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : The cybersecurity researcher Dan Kaminsky has died Tweets: Sa...

2020-05-15
Blocking ads that use too much CPU/data. Seems like a step in the right direction. https://developers.google.com/ ...
2020-05-15 View on X
VentureBeat

From August, Chrome will start blocking ads that consume 4MB of network data, 15 seconds of CPU usage in any 30 second period, or 60 seconds of total CPU usage

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :