Google Analytics does not require cross-site tracking capabilities, and Safari does not block its use. ITP will keep on evolving and morphing to adjust to the cross-site tracking crowd.īut for now, Google Analytics users don’t need to worry about Safari.
Both are doing an amazing job at protecting Safari users from something that can have a devastating impact if mishandled.
I’m not disappointed in the Privacy Report or Intelligent Tracking Prevention.
#Website blocker safari install#
And yes, I’m disappointed I didn’t have enough disk space available to install Big Sur on a proper hard disk partition. I’m disappointed it took the whole day to install Big Sur (macOS beta) on an external drive just to test something I already knew was true. I know it’s not the final version of the Privacy Report yet, so hopefully the copy will be clarified. To use terms like block, prevent, and tracker can lead to confusion, as the aftermath of WWDC showed, unless they are clearly defined in the report itself. I’m disappointed that the Privacy Report has such clumsy wording. I’m disappointed in how this bit of misinformation spread so fast, and how reputable journals took a grainy screenshot and a couple of influencer tweets and jumped to conclusions that were quoted over and over again in social media. I’m disappointed in many things right now. These cookies would not work on Safari or any other browser that targets as a tracking domain. I would imagine there are some that are used for debugging and monitoring purposes, for example. That doesn’t mean there might not be cookies set on. No third-party storage access is being used with the requests to. It’s downloaded from Google’s servers as a JavaScript library, any identifiers are stored in first-party cookies, and any HTTP requests to the GA endpoint use these identifiers and these identifiers alone to specify the source of the tracker. Google Analytics is a first-party analytics platform. The fact that has its ability to leverage third-party storage neutered means nothing to how the tool is actually used. Does it matter that is prevented as a tracker? If a match is found, the domain is surfaced in the Privacy Report to showcase how ITP is blocking known trackers from reading your data. However, instead of listing ALL the domains flagged by ITP, the domains are cross-referenced against DuckDuckGo’s tracker lists. The Privacy Report has been designed to shed light on this process. Just to prove the point, here’s my site with AND flagged as tracking domains, while still merrily loading the JavaScript libraries and sending the HTTP requests to their designated endpoints: That domain has been flagged as a cross-site tracking domain, and Safari assigns certain protective measures to any communications to and from that domain (you can read more about them here).
THIS is what Safari means when it’s prevented a known tracker in. When Safari says it blocks or prevents a tracker, what it means is that the ITP algorithm has flagged some domain as having cross-site tracking capabilities, and Safari has, among other things, stripped it of its capabilities to carry cookies in cross-site requests, also known as third-party cookies. I've tried Safari 14 (on macOS Big Sur), and tested the behaviour of GA vs Safari 13.1, and didn't immediately see any noticeable difference, other than v14 reports domains on which ITP blocked cookies. Similarly, Tom Anthony contributed to the research: Safari now all the 3rd-party domain trackers on the website 1/3 /2RLOOmffZl- Maciek Stanasiuk 📈 June 24, 2020 In the initial release of macOS Big Sur it looks like the new features in #Safari are only UI-focused and nothing new than ITP 2.3 is being implemented. So and the folks, an #WWDC20 #ITP update. That’s John Wilander, the WebKit engineer in charge of ITP saying that “ITP has not started to block resource loads, but ITP does so much more than just block cookies”.Įarly on, Maciek Stanasiuk tested whether hits are actually blocked, and found the opposite: Men ITP gör också mycket mer än begränsar/blockerar kakor som du säkert vet.- John Wilander 🇺🇦 June 24, 2020 ITP har inte börjat blockera resurser från att ladda. That’s not how Intelligent Tracking Prevention(ITP) works. Subscribe to the Simmer newsletter to get the latest news and content from Simo Ahava into your email inbox! NOTE! Search Engine Journal has added a footnote that they might have got the story wrong.
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