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Psylo iOS browser takes aim at digital fingerprinting (www.theregister.com)

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Psylo, which bills itself as a new kind of private web browser, debuted last Tuesday in Apple’s App Store, one day ahead of a report warning about the widespread use of browser fingerprinting for ad tracking and targeting.

It was a fortuitous coincidence.

Psylo for iOS and iPadOS was created by Mysk, a Canada-based app biz run by software developers and security researchers Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk.

“Psylo stands out as it is the only WebKit-based iOS browser that truly isolates tabs,” Tommy Mysk told The Register. "It’s not only about separate storage and cookies. Psylo goes beyond that.

“This is why we call tabs ‘silos.’ It applies unique anti-fingerprinting measures per silo, such as canvas randomization. This way two Psylo tabs opening the same website would appear as though they originated on two different devices to the opened website.”

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 days ago (16 children)

It pretty much just sandboxes google play services. You still need to use it for many things and you can see it's deeply integrated in many places.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (5 children)

False.Graphene does not have Gservices installed by default

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Did I say it did? Maybe I worded it wrong but I meant that you need to use (and install it) to use the vast majority of apps, and it's deeply integrated, in the play store and apps.. and affects many parts of android

If you do install it, which you probably will unless you're okay with living 10 years in the past and losing time, then you're pretty much back to square one

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you do install it, which you probably will unless you’re okay with living 10 years in the past and losing time, then you’re pretty much back to square one

Non-sandboxed play services have vastly more permissions and access to device information; it's a step back from not having it, but utterly disengenuous to call it back to square one. It has far more privileged permission, and as you admit yourself, we don't know what is in its code, so we don't know what it is potentially doing with that permission.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago

yea I guess, I meant it goes from spyware to really intrusive

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