These restrictions are very similar to the kinds of alarming restrictions Google is pushing through its Manifest v3 system. Though useful, Apple’s Content Blocking system has significant limitations, including restrictions on the number and kinds of tracker-blocking rules that can be applied.
Brave iOS has always included optimized versions of popular filter lists, applied through Apple’s Content Blocking system. Enhanced content blocking for tracker protectionīrave iOS versions 1.41 and later include additional, advanced tracker blocking capabilities. Brave iOS users now have protections against both kinds of tracking.
Bounce tracking similarly allows trackers to learn about your interests by getting in the middle of the site you’re coming from and the site you intend to visit. Google’s AMP system allows Google to learn about your interests by serving content on behalf of the site you intended to view, rather than showing you the site itself. Brave for iOS now includes the debouncing and de-AMP-ing protections already available on other platforms of the Brave browser. Since the recent Brave iOS 1.39 release, Brave protects users from a form of tracking where the tracker records what sites you visit by getting between you and the content you want to see. Debouncing and de-AMP-ing to avoid tracking sites However, our new iOS browser works around these limitations, and brings the privacy features on Brave iOS closer into alignment with our other platforms. Apple-imposed restrictions make it difficult for us to include some of the advanced privacy protections from our Desktop and Android browsers in our iOS browser.
Recent versions of Brave on iOS include many new privacy features, ensuring that Brave iOS users have the strongest available protections of any iOS browser. This post was written by Senior Director of Privacy Peter Snyder. This post describes work done by iOS Privacy Engineer Jacob Sikorski.
This is the twentieth post in an ongoing, regular series describing new and upcoming privacy features in Brave.
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