Google tricks Internet Explorer, foils privacy settings, Microsoft says

foxnews.com ^ | 2-20-12

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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.

[mojitojoe]

You can add it to your firefox available search engines here:

https://www.startpage.com/eng/download-startpage-plugin.html

[Texas Fossil]

What do you use?

[mojitojoe]

Just download this and run it at least once a day, it gets rid of most everything.

At the end of each day my routine is to run ccleaner and cleanup, then registry mechanic.

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

http://www.stevengould.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29&Itemid=223

Both are FREE and I’ve used them for years. You do have to pay for registry mechanic.

[mojitojoe]

Check your Freepmail. I don’t want to make things easy for goo gle.

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

Thanks for the Ping!

[LucyT]

[combat_boots]

Tnx, nully

[jellybean]

You can add it to your firefox available search engines here:

It's been my default search engine in Opera for a couple of years.

[Fledermaus]

Why is Google the villian? If Microsoft didn’t offer CRAP for a product they wouldn’t have a problem.

Heck, my three year old Vista Home operating system (touted as a miracle yet again) can no longer download their own updates and there is nothing I can find to fix it and, believe me, I’ve tried.

Please, no posts telling what is better because I’ve seen enough alternatives to know there are always problems and differences that are annoying.

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[Fledermaus]

The problem deleting ALL cookies on MS and Firefox is that you have to keep logging back into sites used frequently.

I have to use a cheat sheet of all my log in ID’s and PW’s.

[JDoutrider]

mark

[cynwoody]

Ok, so what’s the current best alternative to Google?

Yandex, if you don't care if Kommittee knows where you search. DuckDuckGo, if you do.

[cynwoody]

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.

Scroogle is officially Tango Uniform, as of yesterday.

[ShadowAce]

As soon a Linux gets some functionality with the rest of the (unfortunately) MS speaking world.

Sigh.

I've been exclusively Linux since about 2003. I have no issues interacting with Windows computers/users. My kids' computer is Linux (they installed it themselves before they were 10--with zero help). They have no issues with Windows/internet/etc.

Learn what you are talking about before spouting off.

[mojitojoe]

Well the Chicago thugs in the WH and Goo gle finally won, at least with Scro ogle. Who’s next?

https://startpage.com/do/search

You can still go through a proxy or block your IP and use Goo gle. Set your programs to block them from putting anything on your computer and if you sign up for You Tube use a fake emails that you use for nothing else, and fake names. Sometimes I think it’s fun to just mess with them and it’s not hard to do. Of course chrome and g mail are a NO NO. If anyone uses chrome of gmail then they shouldn’t be worried about using goo gle because the tentacles are already firmly imbedded into their registry with a number that only a computer tech will be able to get rid of.

[mojitojoe]

The problem deleting ALL cookies on MS and Firefox is that you have to keep logging back into sites used frequently.
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You can set it to not delete your passwords and you really shouldn’t store passwords for things like credit cards, banks, paypal, etc. Everyone should keep cheat sheet just in case.

[Fledermaus]

I don’t care to store passwords, just user ID info. That is what I get tired of redoing everytime I visit a site.

For example, I don’t care to have to log in to FR everytime I visit.

[mojitojoe]

I’m not sure what you mean by used ID info.