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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[-] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

Just use a custom rom already.

[-] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr -1 points 3 days ago

You'll either end up installing google play services which will put you in a similar privacy nightmare, although it might not run as root anymore, or not use it and be locked out of the vast majority of apps, and at this point that's not a modern smartphone anymore

[-] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

Well, microg (even if it has some proprietary blobs) + you can disable the nonpriviliged gms on graphene.

[-] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

microg might be the best bet but isn't it a pain to make it work with graphene? Graphene pushes sandboxed services

All apps doing store verifications will keep you out though, and that's annoying. Fuck the play integrity api

[-] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Divestos was cool while it lasted (nonpriviliged microg, graphene patches, etc.), I just use lineageos with microg. It's the best thing I have on my Redmi and OnePlus (when I will actually fully repair it). Edit: never actually used Divestos.

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