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Google could display a message in page, like they do when first party cookies are disabled or when firebug is running. Instead, they chose to "jailbreak" themse
by Drbble 15y ago
Google could display a message in page, like they do when first party cookies are disabled or when firebug is running. Instead, they chose to "jailbreak" themselves and not even tell the user what they are doing. Google makes a tickertape parade of yellow see sticky notes every time they change the shade of grey in a form button, it is quite telling that they are ashamed of admitting "
- stanleydrew 15y agoThis makes no sense. The breaking behavior that Google is trying to avoid does not occur on Google properties. First-party cookies are not the problem. The breaking behavior occurs on third-party sites trying to include +1 buttons and the like. Your solution is to display a wall of text or a dialog on someone else's site when visitors have the default security settings in IE? Somehow I don't think anybody would be happy with that.
- stiff 15y agoThey in fact cannot even display a message, there is no way AFAIK to distinguish between this situation and someone simply not being logged-in. Even if they could, they would still leave IE users without some functionality. Again, I do not want to be Google's advocate and I do not know their specific use cases, I am just saying they are legitimate use cases for both not having the privacy policy that restrictive (eg. when processing and passing over the users data is actually part of the buisness model) and for doing third party integration, which the security model as implemented by MSIE makes impossible to handle.