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Google, what's wrong with you? Do what Path did.

• Bud 15y ago
  Too late to do that. Apple is patching it in the next iOS update.
  • myko 15y ago
    You mean they're updating Safari with a patch created by Google engineers months ago to fix the issue: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/92142 http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/92142
    • Tyrannosaurs 15y ago
      That's a pretty poor justification. If Google were serious about protecting users from this loophole thy wouldn't exploit it.
    • YooLi 15y ago
      Whether the bug is fixed by the Chromium team or not, Google should not have been exploiting it to track users.
      • magicalist 15y ago
        "This tracking, discovered by Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer, was a technical side-effect — probably an unintended side-effect — of a system that Google built to pass social personalization information (like, “your friend Suzy +1'ed this ad about candy”) from the google.com domain to the doubleclick.net domain." edit: to be clear, whether or not is was an intended side effect, it is a side effect of a (potentially) legitimate use case (setting the value of +1-ing an ad aside).