Posted on 02/21/2012 6:08:37 AM PST by rawhide
Google has secretly been bypassing your privacy settings in Internet Explorer, Microsoft claimed Monday afternoon.
The startling accusation came in a blog post Monday by Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for Internet Explorer. On Friday, a Wall Street Journal investigation revealed that the search and advertising giant was bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Safari browsers on iPhones and desktop computers.
“When the IE team heard that Google had bypassed user privacy settings on Safari, we asked ourselves a simple question: is Google circumventing the privacy preferences of Internet Explorer users too?” Hachamovitch wrote.
“We’ve discovered the answer is yes: Google is employing similar methods to get around the default privacy protections in IE and track IE users with cookies."
... Google responded to Microsoft's accusations with a statement saying that the Windows giant "omitted important information from its blog post," noting that Microsoft's “self-declaration” protocol under which Microsoft asks "websites to represent their privacy practices in machine-readable form" is impractical to comply with -- and stating that the policy is widely non-operational.
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Ah, I think I get it. I let very few sites use cookies, without the need for any special addons, but it looks like there are addons for people who want to allow most cookies, but not certain types.
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Thanks. I cleaned out a bunch.
As was pointed out up-thread, don’t forget about the flash cookies. Firefox add-on Better Privacy does a good job of nuking these, imho.
Google pays 2.4% in taxes. Taxes are for little people.
“Google pays 2.4% in taxes. Taxes are for little people.”
Why is Google’s tax rate so high? With all the pro-Obama and pro-left wing support coming from them it should be 0% like GE’s.
“What we need is a true Conservative search engine.”
If you ever discover one, please let the rest of us know.
I’ve started using this one:
It supposedly doesn’t collect and share personal information:
http://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html
Thanks for the heads up. Looks like I’m immune to them since I’ve never installed Flash.
Interesting that Google’s money pump ends where Obama’s campaign contributions start... in Bermuda.
“When will people come to their senses and avoid Google and MS?”
As soon a Linux gets some functionality with the rest of the (unfortunately) MS speaking world.
Linux users remind me of Esperanto advocates. May be a great idea, but not that useful for non-Linux geeks.
MS is like the English language. Lots of well documented problems, but it is the best thing for getting around & communicating around the world.
I don’t know if this is the best, but I am very happy with it:
I have used it for years (since it went by a different name). Look it over. It comes Robin’s seal of approval. (for what that’s worth)
Goo gle is an arm of the thugs in the WH. Anyone that uses Goo gle, g mail, real email addresses to sign up on You Tube, etc. and does not hide their IP and prevent anything Goo gle on their computer is a moron and a glutton for punishment.
Thanks for the helpful tech advice...
Use Firebox, block Goo gle everything, don’t used Chrome or g mail, hide your IP, use Bing or Scroogle, check your register each week for anything that says Goo gle and delete the key. Tell Firefox to delete all cookies when you close firefox and use cleanup and ccleaner(free) to make sure all cookies and temp files are deleted.
Hushmail is better. It’s based in Canada and it’s encrypted. It’s our government that worries me about snooping, not Canada.
I can read my email on Safari... guess that needs to stop...
And I don’t plan on signing in to YouTube and posting comments there anymore either.
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Block your Ip or go through a proxy. Make up a fake email account, one you use for You Tube only. Sign up. Then post away on You Tube. Make sure you give full rebuttal to all the paid Obots that work You tube and there are 1000’s.
I don’t trust that one at all and here is why. It won’t let me search unless I allow my no script to allow goo gle.
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