Thursday, April 9, 2015

What's this Safari favicon fix about?

http://ift.tt/1FnoaLB // Apple-favicon

In the recent slew of updates brought by OS X Yosemite 10.10.3, which included a new Photos app and more than 300 new emoji, one tiny but very important fix is easily overlooked: Safari no longer saves website favicon URLs while in Private Browsing mode


Until now, even if you were browsing privately in Safari — which should leave absolutely no traces of your browsing history — Safari kept records of all the favicons from the sites you visited



The favicon is the tiny icon that sometimes appears in front of an URL field in your web browser, and it's mostly a cosmetic feature. However, knowing which site it came from is very often the same as knowing which sites you were browsing, rendering the entire private browsing session very vulnerable to someone who knows where to look Read more...


More about Apple, Favicon, Privacy, Safari, and Os X



from MashableStan Schroeder
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