Apple issues ‘massive’ warning about Google Chrome to all 1.46 billion iPhone users

Apple has issued a huge warning to all of its 1.46 billion iPhone users, which appears to be centered on Google Chrome.

The tech giant set up billboards around the world to promote its Safari search app. The app was praised as ‘a browser that is actually private’.

Although the ad doesn’t mention Google Chrome by name, it is the most downloaded search browser for smartphones, surpassing Safari by more than two million.

While the billboard is an attack on Google, the company announced earlier this year that it collects data from everyone who uses Chrome.

Apple promoted the security of its own Safari browser – which has nearly a billion users worldwide – on billboards around the world to discourage people from using the Chrome alternative, which has an estimated 3.4 billion users

The ad has been spotted in cities like San Francisco, London and Paris, but also in far-flung countries like Singapore and Australia, where people saw them online. billboards, public transport and public buildings.

“Interesting to know it’s not just in Singapore,” one person responded to a message from someone who had seen the ad in Australia.

‘On the contrary, in my opinion [in my honest opinion] it’s a good idea. It’s a fresh way to advertise.

‘Some people will be curious. Especially those who are not in the Apple ecosystem and may not know what Safari is.”

Someone else wrote on the billboard in San Francisco: “When you see Google settling a lawsuit because its incognito platform isn’t so incognito, there’s no doubt this is playing on that.”

Apple’s ads appear to be warning people not to use Google, as there has been repeated controversy over the Chrome browser’s ability to retain cookie and search information.

“Google revealed earlier this year that it collects your data when you use Google Chrome, even if you use incognito mode,” said Jake Moore, a global security advisor at cybersecurity company ESET. Forbes.

“Personal data is so valuable to businesses and when terms and conditions are so difficult to understand, users can easily let businesses simply collect data whenever they want.”

However, a Google spokesperson told DailyMail.com that the company is committed to keeping people’s data safe by default and ensuring that users can control when and how their data is used in Chrome to personalize their web browsing experience.

‘We believe that users should always be in control. That’s why we built easy-to-use privacy and security settings right into Chrome.”

The ad was promoted in cities such as San Francisco, London and Paris, as well as in countries as far away as Singapore (pictured) and Australia.

Apple told users it ‘respects’ [their] privacy’ on a billboard for the Safari browser in Paris, France

The company’s Google Chrome 125 update contained nine security vulnerabilities after warning that a flaw could allow a remote attacker to inject custom code via an HTML page to destabilize a user’s browser.

A 2020 class action lawsuit also alleged that Google improperly tracked users’ browsing habits when they thought they were visiting private websites.

Google finally settled a lawsuit in April that demanded it delete billions of records of data revealing users’ private browsing activities and give people who are incognito the ability to block third-party cookies.

“The settlement requires Google to delete and restore data it has unlawfully collected in the past, on an unprecedented scale and volume,” David Boies, the attorney in the lawsuit, told ABC news.