{"id":40577,"date":"2023-09-07T16:34:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T20:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=40577"},"modified":"2023-09-07T16:34:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T20:34:41","slug":"intelligent-tracking-prevention-deleting-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/07\/intelligent-tracking-prevention-deleting-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent Tracking Prevention Deleting Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

To put it simply, if you haven’t visited Twitter in the past 7 days, then Safari will automatically delete your Twitter settings, including your font size, color scheme, and timeline behavior!<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

On macOS, enable “Show Develop menu in menu bar” at the bottom of the Advanced pane in Safari Preferences, then open the Develop menu, the Experimental Features submenu, and select “Disable Removal of Non-Cookie Data After 7 Days of No User Interaction (ITP)”. On iOS, the same Experimental Features submenu is in the Advanced menu at the bottom of the Safari section in Settings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But this setting is reset<\/a> with each software update.<\/p>\n\n

Jeff Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Of course I want to prevent cross-site tracking, but the way that Safari implements it leaves a lot to be desired, especially compared to Chrome and Firefox, both of which allow you to set per-website cookies and storage settings. For some strange reason, Safari Website Settings doesn’t include cookies and storage (or JavaScript, for that matter).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Per-site JavaScript settings would be great.<\/p>\n

\n

Today I was hit (yet again) by another ITP policy[…] The domain in this case was a Mastodon<\/a> instance, so I’m not sure why it was “classified” by ITP. I was able to determine that ITP was the culprit in deleting my website data by checking my backups and looking inside Safari’s “container”[…]<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

I’m logged in permanently to a number of different websites that I use only occasionally, which makes ITP’s 30-day policy quite problematic for me. When Safari deletes all storage data for a site, you are thereby logged out of the site and need to login again. If Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) is involved, this is egregious, because you have to jump through extra hoops every time you need to login again with 2FA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

I’ve been running Safari without ITP for quite a while now, but even then it seems to forget a lot. Despite asking to be remembered, I have to enter my Amazon password multiple times per day to view order information.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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