With the feature disabled, Safari will no longer flags websites known to be malicious in nature. To do so, venture into Settings → Safari on your device, then slide the switch labeled “Fraudulent Website Warning” to the OFF position. However, you can disable Apple’s Fraudulent Website Warning feature. It seems to be one of those under-the-hood features that work on autopilot to protect user privacy. Safari’s Fraudulent Website Warning featureĪt present, there’s no user-facing switch available to tell Safari to proxy the Google Safe Browsing service. It wouldn’t be the first time a new feature was present in an iOS beta release only to mysteriously disappear from the commercial release. We need to point out that Apple might ultimately drop this new Dsafari feature from shipping versions of iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5. The article seems confused about how the flow works.
No, we don't send URLs to the server, that would obviously be crazy bad, even with a proxy. As for when the general public might be able to enjoy the new featurs, the updates are dropping this spring. There will be at least a couple more betas before Apple declares so-called release candidates. The updates are currently at beta 1, which Apple released last week. And when can I use this feature?Īpple is currently testing iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5 with its registered developers and public beta testers. This effectively stops user data from being returned to Google. Rather, it uses an Apple proxy along with a copy of a database hosted on its own servers. With the change in iOS 14.5, Safari no longer pings the Safe Browsing database hosted on Google’s server. This article is a bit confused on the details of how Safe Browsing works, but in the new iOS beta, Safari does indeed proxy the service via Apple servers to limit the risk of information leak. While the actual website address is never shared with the safe-browsing provider (it’s sent in an encoded form), Apple acknowledges that safe-browsing providers may log your IP address when information is sent to them. The 8-Bit explains that Safari sends a hashed version of the URL to Google Safe Browsing to check if it’s a suspected fraudulent website.
The Safari & Privacy document on the Apple website states that Safari may use the Google Safe Browsing feature to determine if a website is fraudulent. Google Safe Browsing powers Apple’s Fraudulent Website Warning feature in Safari, which was designed to alert you when the site you’re about to visit is a suspected phishing website, a fraudulent website that masquerades as a legitimate one or a website that hosts malware. Doing so helps further safeguard users’ privacy while using the company’s Safari browser. Maciej Stachowiak, Apple’s head of WebKit, has confirmed on Twitter that Safari in iOS 14.5 users a copy of Google’s Safe Browsing database that’s hosted on Apple’s own servers. Safari in iOS and iPadOS 14.5 further limits the risk of information leak by proxying safe-browsing services via Apple servers to prevents user data from being returned to Google.
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