Apple integrated the “Tencent Safe Browsing” service to power its “Fraudulent Website Warning” feature in the Safari web browser for both iOS and macOS. Just like the Safe Browsing feature in Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, Safari’s fraudulent website warning feature has also been designed to protect users from various online threats by simply checking every website they visit against a regularly updated list of malicious websites. Now having Tencent on the same list, Apple is also giving the same privileges to the Chinese company as of Google.
This article addressed people’s concerns about the safety issue of sharing their data with Tencent. It is true, but I think Apple uses business strategy because Google services are banned in China and they tried to protect Chinese users’ privacy. Apple uses a smart to comfort users’ concern by offering users the manual approach to turn off fraudulent website warnings.
https://thehackernews.com/2019/10/apple-safari-safebrowsing-tencent.html
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