Tag: safari

  • Google Chrome on an idle Android phone sends nearly fifty times more requests per hour than iOS on Safari

    Digital Content Next reported that Google Chrome on an idle Android phone sends nearly fifty times more requests per hour than iOS on Safari. A dormant, stationary Android phone (with the Chrome browser active in the background) communicated location information to Google 340 times during a 24-hour period, or at an average of 14 data…

  • Web browser efficiency

    BatteryBox reported on Chrome vs Safari vs Firefox web browser efficiency. Averaging data from all websites tested, Safari won first place with 6hours 21min of total usage, Firefox second with 5hours 29min of usage, and Chrome last with 5hours 8min of usage. Basically, if you simply switch to using Safari instead of Chrome, on average you could get…

  • Safari users win right to sue Google over privacy

    BBC reported on Safari users winning the right to sue Google over privacy. The case revolves around a so-called Safari workaround, which allegedly allowed Google to avoid the Safari web browser’s default privacy setting to place cookies, that gathered data such as surfing habits, social class, race, ethnicity, without users’ knowledge. Users prefer Safari because…