Google Reportedly Bypassed Safari Privacy Settings to Track iPhone Users
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Google Reportedly Bypassed Safari Privacy Settings to Track iPhone Users
Wall Street Journal reports that Google and few other advertising companies have used a loophole in iPhone's Safari browser to track the web-browsing habits of users.
WSJ explains how Google managed to track iPhone users:
Last year, Google added a feature to put the +1 button in ads placed across the Web using Google's DoubleClick ad technology. The idea: If people like the ad, they could click "+1" and post their approval to their Google social-networking profile.
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Google is quickly becoming a company that disgusts me. I'm starting to circumvent their services more and more.
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So you would share your info with Apple and not with Google? Whats the difference? In recent developments of these court cases, IMO Apple is doing all the evil without thinking about how it will effect its customers.
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Done with Google. Switching to Bing for now.
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M$ will probably do the same or similar. Lets wait and see...
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Apple will update this in next iOS.
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The instructions given in the article are incorrect. In iOS5, tap "Settings," then tap "Safari," and then "Advanced" and then "Website Data." If there are many websites listed you can extend the visible list by tapping the last entry.We have not made plans to change this in the new release to the best of my knowledge.
