Safari is definitely in the technological pessimism camp as that's Apple's party line on the open web.
Safari has continuously caused "headache" to businesses that rely on tracking user behavior for years now, as Apple is very bent on protecting your privacy from every other company outside or inside their walled garden.
Well that's the thing the article touches, people tend to think that military history is not studied in a serious manner as far as an academic discipline goes. Military academies can do the bare minimum in rigor as far as they need to impart their military tradition and form effective officers, just like the author said about aristocrats learning how other aristocrats did their thing before smashing some peasants.
Of course they put themselves in the shoes of the guys holding your privacy in contempt as, in the best of case, a measure to save at worst a few days of engineering hours.
They imagine that lowering the bar for privacy benefits them and their future imaginary startups, or may save them from uninteresting work at their current jobs.
Safari has continuously caused "headache" to businesses that rely on tracking user behavior for years now, as Apple is very bent on protecting your privacy from every other company outside or inside their walled garden.