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Google's iPhone Tracking bypassed Apple Browser Settings for Guarding Privacy
- JeremyBanks 15y agoI hit a paywall before this article gave me any idea what actually happened. Fortunately, WSJ also made a blog post about the subject: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/02/16/how-google-tracked-safari-users/ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/02/16/how-google-tracked-sa...
- stanleydrew 15y agoIf you get to the end of the post, it notes that two Google engineers were actually responsible for patching the loophole in webkit that allows storing third-party cookies after a form submission: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/92142 http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/92142
- doe88 15y agoBut if you try to read the previous 99% of the blog post you'll see how some shady advertising companies perpetually try to game the system without any user consent.
- acqq 15y agoThe researcher who discovered that is http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jonathan-mayer http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jonathan-mayer and https://www.stanford.edu/~jmayer/ https://www.stanford.edu/~jmayer/ but I can't find anything he wrote related to the issue of this particular news item. Anybody knows?
- bazzargh 15y agoHe says he's still working on his writeup https://twitter.com/#!/jonathanmayer/status/170368004645855233 https://twitter.com/#!/jonathanmayer/status/1703680046458552... He also links to the EFF coverage: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/time-make-amends-google-circumvents-privacy-settings-safari-users https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/time-make-amends-googl...