9to5Mac Daily: September 21

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Safari on iPhone is more private than many other browsers by default, but it can’t keep your information safe from everything. Does your iPhone’s Safari browser privacy features actually make you safer.

Googlebook laptops from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo now have a launch date. When can you actually buy a Googlebook? Here are the dates, and the free stuff (Updated).

Safari limits tracking by default, but private browsing still has limitations. According to the Safari info page, the browser blocks third-party cookies by default, uses machine learning to limit cross-site tracking, hides your IP address from known trackers and removes identifying info from certain URLs.

Here are the dates, and the free stuff (Updated). Computing When can you actually buy a Googlebook.

In 2019, Apple published a white paper covering the full range of Safari’s privacy capabilities if you’re interested in the details. All these features are important because advertising and data-broker networks (and by extension, the FBI) are itching to gobble up your private data.

Here are the dates, and the free stuff (Updated) Googlebook laptops from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo now have a launch date. While pre-orders start today, Googlebooks will be available to purchase starting October 4.

Tracking info often follows you throughout unrelated sites, searches, purchases and profile visits. Safari helps by cutting most of these data leeches off at the knees, limiting the data shared with those networks and making it more difficult for advertisers to build an infrastructure based on your behavior.

Google is also offering a full year’s worth of Google AI Pro subscription, along with access to Gemini Spark. Update, September 21, 2026 (05:33 PM ET): Still thinking over whether or not you want to take the plunge on one of these first-gen Googlebook laptops.

"private" doesn’t place Safari on the same pedestal as a quality VPN.

Maybe this will help sway you a little bit in one direction: Acer tells that shoppers who pre-order the Acer Googlebook 14 at Best Buy will also get a free pair of Google Pixel Buds 2a earbuds. Acer / Best Buy Original article, September 21, 2026 (09:00 AM ET): Google is re-entering the premium laptop space today with a new product category: the Googlebook.