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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I’m not sure what you mean by user ID info.
Like “Fledermaus” here on FR. The Sign in sites us.
Like “Fledermaus” here on FR. The Sign in sites use.
But they’re buying Yahoo, and Bing has its own problems.
What we need is a true Conservative search engine.
Google is buying Yahoo?
What problems does Bing have?
Agreed! Need privacy based conservative search engine. May have to be user supported.
What add-on do you recommend
Firefox has an add-on to disable flash cookies.
I use both Ghostery and Better Privacy. Then run both AdAware and SpyBot weekly. Rarely is there anything there for AdAware to SpyBot to remove, but I do occasionally need to use another browser which lets some tracking through.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/?src=search
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy/?src=search
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