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Safari Is Now The Only Major Browser That Offers ‘Do Not Track’ on iOS

Vice Motherboard:

On Wednesday, Google released a new version of its popular Chrome browser for Apple iPhones and iPads promising faster speeds and fewer crashes.

But some privacy-conscious users got a bad surprise when their apps got upgraded (Google is rolling out the upgrade “gradually”). All of a sudden, their iPhone Chrome browser stopped supporting “Do Not Track,” a feature designed to help consumers opt out of online tracking.
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“[It’s] not easy,” Joseph Hall, the chief technologist with the Center for Democracy and Technology, told me in an online chat. “This is one of the misfortunes of mobile internet. One does not have the same tracker blocking options as on desktop [operating systems].”

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