Google's iPhone Tracking

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savit

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Read More - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204880404577225380456599176.html?hat_input=google+apple+safari+

Google Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Inc.'s Web browser on their iPhones and computers—tracking the Web-browsing habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocked.

The companies used special computer code that tricks Apple's Safari Web-browsing software into letting them monitor many users. Safari, the most widely used browser on mobile devices, is designed to block such tracking by default.

Google disabled its code after being contacted by The Wall Street Journal.

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Ink

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When it's Google and Apple in the article, it's always making Google look like the bad guy.

Why doesn't Apple just patch this?
 

MrXidus

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Both of them are just as bad as the other in different ways. Not going to voice which areas tho, Not interested in debating.
 
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Vextor

Meh. I don't have an iPhone, so I have no opinions, however it shouldn't be tracked.
 

samit

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its look like its not only safari but also IE....
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/google-bypassing-internet-explorer-privacy-setting-track-users
 

HeffeD

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samit said:
its look like its not only safari but also IE....
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/google-bypassing-internet-explorer-privacy-setting-track-users

Yes, here is an article about it on the IE blog. Google Bypassing User Privacy Settings

I'm wondering if there is a way you can get a companies motto revoked? :p I don't know if tactics such as these fit their "Don't be Evil" slogan... :rolleyes:
 
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