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by CharlesW 1408 days ago
This class of security problem is also a great reason to never allow custom browser engines.
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...why wouldn't it be possible? iOS has application sandboxing, just drop all DNS requests for the webview that's outside a developer-defined namespace. I'm sure someone at Apple could find a better way to implement it, but we shouldn't accept lame excuses like this. Apple has 200 billion dollars in cash, this is not an advanced problem space.
Then the app can use DOH, or tunnel DNS requests over something else - a non-safari browser engine wouldn’t have to use system DNS by any means…
I thought non-safari browser engines were banned
They are. This is a hypothetical discussion.
How about services like luna, stadia, etc which can render any sort of interactive content (typically games)?