A bug discovered in Safari 15 could be leaking information about the sites you visit online. Worse yet, it could be exposing your unique Google ID and profile information.
the issue stems from a system that Safari 15 and all other major web browsers use to cache browsing information on your phone, tablet or computer.
It’s called IndexedDB and it’s leaned on heavily by today’s complex websites. Normally, information stored in IndexedDB storage can only be accessed by a web page from the same domain that created it. If Google creates it, for example, the information cached there can only be accessed by another Google web page.
This “same-origin” policy is designed to protect you from malicious sites that may attempt to steal information from your browser. What FingerprintJS discovered is that the current version of WebKit, the browser engine that powers Safari on Macs as well as all browsers on iOS and iPadOS, could be tricked into skipping the same-origin check.
What’s so bad about that? Fingerprint JS says that “it lets arbitrary websites learn what websites [you visit] in different tabs or windows.” Furthermore, “[some] websites use unique user-specific identifiers in database names [which] means that authenticated users can be uniquely and precisely identified.”
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