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Google exploited Safari to track users who had opted-out of being tracked so relying on them to respect a cookie may have been futile even if they supported it.
by benologist 8y ago
Google exploited Safari to track users who had opted-out of being tracked so relying on them to respect a cookie may have been futile even if they supported it.
The current charges involve Google's use of special
computer code to trick Apple's Safari Web-browsing
software into letting it monitor users that had blocked
such tracking.
https://money.cnn.com/2012/02/17/technology/google_tracking_safari/index.htm https://money.cnn.com/2012/02/17/technology/google_tracking_...
- gonyea 8y agoSo did literally everybody else building a website that was embedded in an iframe. I was there in 2011, at a startup, copying the same StackOverflow answer as everyone else so we could store cookies in Safari. This is such a non-issue. It was widely regarded as a bug in Safari.
- RedComet 8y agoOh, well that’s perfectly okay then.
- sharcerer 8y agoSo, is Google guilty in this case? Because i think in UK, a group of iPhone users are suing them. More of a coding practices mistake than a specific company one?
- jlarocco 8y agoFYI, that's not making Google look good, it's making you look bad.