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It's not so much that they are intentionally ignoring users privacy as they preferring the privacy settings their users have directly given them rather than tho

by tensor 15y ago

It's not so much that they are intentionally ignoring users privacy as they preferring the privacy settings their users have directly given them rather than those set in the browser. I've long been opted out from all of Google's ad tracking, on their site and elsewhere: http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/ http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/ http://www.google.com/ads/preferences http://www.google.com/ads/preferences Privacy is something that few of these companies truly respects. Does Google really respect it? Probably not as much as they'd like you to believe, but at least they are willing to discuss it and provide opt out solutions.

recoiledsnake 15y ago
Why not actually follow the P3P standard and then have a flag in the Ad preferences page to enable 3rd party cookies? >...as they preferring the privacy settings their users have directly given them rather than those set in the browser. That's extremely misleading. That's a default as well and not something that the user have "directly given them". I seriously doubt more than 0.1% of Google users have ever visited that page.
kylemaxwell 15y ago
I'm not really happy with preferring their opt-out setting when I've already made an opt-out setting in my browser. I don't believe for a moment that Apple or Microsoft care about my privacy any more than Google does, but if I've made a choice and communicated that via browser settings, I expect information providers to respect that choice and not try to exploit the browser in an attempt to bypass my choice.
- tensor 15y ago
  If you truly care about your privacy rather than simply making a political statement, use something like Ghostery (http://www.ghostery.com/ http://www.ghostery.com/). Even if some of the big companies care enough to respect a request like this, I assure you that the majority of tracking services will not. If you are making a political statement, then that's fine, I agree that all companies, Google included, should do far better on privacy grounds than they already are.
eddieplan9 15y ago
And before you know it, you will need to opt out of tracking of GoogleDrone[1]. The whole privacy controversies would go away if tracking is opt-in rather than opt-out. [1] http://www.ww4report.com/node/10857 http://www.ww4report.com/node/10857

by tensor 15y ago

recoiledsnake 15y ago

Why not actually follow the P3P standard and then have a flag in the Ad preferences page to enable 3rd party cookies? >...as they preferring the privacy settings their users have directly given them rather than those set in the browser. That's extremely misleading. That's a default as well and not something that the user have "directly given them". I seriously doubt more than 0.1% of Google users have ever visited that page.

kylemaxwell 15y ago

I'm not really happy with preferring their opt-out setting when I've already made an opt-out setting in my browser. I don't believe for a moment that Apple or Microsoft care about my privacy any more than Google does, but if I've made a choice and communicated that via browser settings, I expect information providers to respect that choice and not try to exploit the browser in an attempt to bypass my choice.

tensor 15y ago
If you truly care about your privacy rather than simply making a political statement, use something like Ghostery (http://www.ghostery.com/ http://www.ghostery.com/). Even if some of the big companies care enough to respect a request like this, I assure you that the majority of tracking services will not. If you are making a political statement, then that's fine, I agree that all companies, Google included, should do far better on privacy grounds than they already are.

eddieplan9 15y ago

And before you know it, you will need to opt out of tracking of GoogleDrone[1]. The whole privacy controversies would go away if tracking is opt-in rather than opt-out. [1] http://www.ww4report.com/node/10857 http://www.ww4report.com/node/10857