On: New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data

[saagarjha]

The Safari App Extension is running in the background, which is presumably what the process is communicating with.

[scarface74 → saagarjha]

You’re talking about MacOS and not iOS? As far I know, the only time Safari or any other app on iOS calls an extension is when the user chooses to “share” with that extension

[saagarjha → scarface74]

Yeah, I think this API is only available on macOS. On iOS this would require keeping the extension alive in the background, which Apple seems largely opposed to allowing.