{"id":41182,"date":"2023-11-22T15:45:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T20:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=41182"},"modified":"2023-11-27T10:34:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T15:34:00","slug":"safari-share-menu-now-violates-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/22\/safari-share-menu-now-violates-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Safari Share Menu Now Violates Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/2023\/10\/8.html\">Jeff Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/2023\/10\/8.html\"><p>Looking at the packet trace, the share menu attempts to fetch the icon files <code>favicon.ico<\/code>, <code>apple-touch-icon.png<\/code>, and <code>apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png<\/code> from the site.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>And of course your IP address is leaked.<\/p><p>My belief is that a website should <em>not<\/em> be notified and given your IP address and other information such as hardware device type and web browser version when you share the URL of the website.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The <em>only<\/em> purpose of the HTTP requests in Safari&rsquo;s share menu appears to be to display the link&rsquo;s icon and title in the share menu. Crucially, that information is not passed along to the other apps!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In most cases, I think people would be sharing the page that Safari is currently showing, so the data would have already been loaded. But it&rsquo;s not expected that essentially copying a link within that page would send additional network requests.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/10\/why-the-macos-ventura-share-menu-is-bad\/\">Why the macOS Ventura Share Menu Is Bad<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Johnson: Looking at the packet trace, the share menu attempts to fetch the icon files favicon.ico, apple-touch-icon.png, and apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png from the site.[&#8230;]And of course your IP address is leaked.My belief is that a website should not be notified and given your IP address and other information such as hardware device type and web browser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-11-22T20:45:38Z","apple_news_api_id":"a1ed7d1d-874f-4ee3-bb99-f8fef3d61b9e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-11-22T20:45:38Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Aoe19HYdPTuO7mfj-89Ybng","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[649,2026,30,2385,355,103],"class_list":["post-41182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-esoteric-preferences","tag-favicons","tag-mac","tag-macos-14-sonoma","tag-privacy","tag-safari"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41183,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41182\/revisions\/41183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}