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Apple’s war against online tracking continues. Four years after the iPhone maker targeted link-based tracking tactics with the April 2019 update to Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention feature, Apple has extended its aim to its mobile browser with last month’s rollout of iOS 17.
The latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system introduces Advanced Tracking and Fingerprinting Protection, an option for iPhone owners to make it harder for companies to track them when using Safari’s Private Browsing feature.
In addition to anti-tracking tactics like obscuring the web signals that companies collect to triangulate individuals’ identities through device fingerprinting and blocking known trackers, ATFP will combat companies using query parameters in links to track individuals, as explained in the video skit below.
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