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Google Accused of Bypassing Safari's Privacy Controls
DJRumpy points out an article (based on a possibly paywalled WSJ report) describing how Google and other ad networks wrote code that would bypass the privacy settings of Apple's Safari web browser. 'The default settings of Safari block cookies "from third parties and advertisers," a setting that is supposed to only allow sites that the user is directly interacting with to save a cookie (client side data that remote web servers can later access in subsequent visits). ... The report notes that "Google added coding to some of its ads that made Safari think that a person was submitting an invisible form to Google. Safari would then let Google install a cookie on the phone or computer.' Google says this mischaracterizes what the code does, claiming it simply enables 'features for signed-in Google users on Safari who had opted to see personalized ads and other content — such as the ability to “+1” things that interest them.' Google adds that the data transferred between Safari and Google's servers was anonymized. John Battelle writes that the WSJ's story is sensationalist, but that it raises good questions about the practices of ad networks as well as Apple's efforts to stymie industry-standard practices.
Then your image isn't lock down,l dumb ass.
" It may have put its settings in the user-writable area of the registry but it's very sneaky to do so"
WHAT? that's how it's supposed to work. You should be label to install thing into the user area if the user wants to, that's the fucking point.
The other browsers want you to install it in a way that gives them permission to do whatever they want. The other browsers are FORCING YOU to give up security in order to install and run them.
What the hell is wrong with people like you? a company makes a browser that gives the users options, adheres to standards, doesn't force you to violate your chosen security, and everyone is against it? Which would be fine if that actually could state a good reason.
But we get idiots like you who done't seem to know how their own computer is supposed to work, and clearly it's Google's fault for doing what you allow it to do.
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If Chrome is able to do things you did not intend on your systems then you have much more serious problems and your systems are incompetently configured and managed.
Just keep drinking the Koolaid...
It's amazing to me that - even despite the story we're responding to - it doesn't even enter your mind that maybe, just maybe, Google knows about a nice little unpublicized exploit that lets them work around the standard Windows corporate lockdown setup.
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