Safari blocks trackers that turn your email into a tracking ID

Reported by Help Net Security (Anamarija Pogorelec)

Summary by Cyber Security News21 Oct 2026, 10:53 CET

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Apple’s new anti-tracking protections in Safari and WebKit, the open-source web engine used by Safari, block connections to identity resolution services that turn email addresses into persistent tracking identifiers. How email addresses become tracking IDs This “post-cookie” tracking method allows a third party to collect a user’s email address when they log in to a website or sign up for a newsletter.

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