Apple warns iPhone users about a recent decision made by Google, making Chrome less private on iOS.
You might have recently seen Apple re-run an ad for Safari that was originally released last July. The ad featured mechanical « camera birds » that were flying around an unnamed city spying on users of Android handsets who presumably were using the mobile browser on their devices. As Apple made clear during the ad, the point of the commercial was to differentiate the security of its Safari mobile browser from what it hints is lax security on Android browsers.
In the ad, when iPhone users are threatened by the camera bids, they tap the Safari icon on their screens causing the camera birds to explode. The ad also includes statements from Apple that are not subtle such as, « Your browsing is being watched », and « Safari. A browser that’s actually private. »
While the ad has returned to the airwaves nearly 10 months after its original release, it has greater meaning now which is why Apple has put it back into its advertising rotation. Earlier this week, Google backed away from a promise it made to remove third-party tracking cookies from its mobile Chrome Browser.
