Apple iOS 14.5 will hide Safari users’ IP addresses from Google’s Safe Browsing

Apple’s forthcoming iOS 14.5 release, currently in beta, will conceal the IP address of Safari web surfers from Google’s Safe Browsing service, integrated into Safari to spot fraudulent websites. On Wednesday, Maciej Stachowiak, head of WebKit engineering at Apple, confirmed the change via Twitter, stating that “in the new iOS beta, Safari does indeed proxy the service via Apple servers to limit the risk of information leak.”

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