Hey, Google is going to give everyone more information about cookies for the next five years. Be Happy!
That sounds analogous to a convicted burglar telling me he still going to break into my home again, only this time he's going to tell which door he's are going to break down so I can try to put better locks on it. I'm so happy!
What is Google's problem? Google just reminds me of a bunch of immature kids that have NO business sense. I think each employee of Google has to go through an business ethics course and be tested and monitored. I think this "Free for All" attitude of theirs just gets them into more trouble.
Good. . Whether really by accident or purposefully it shouldn't have happened. Personally I think that even if it started out as a surprise I doubt it took Google long to recognize what the result was. They shoulda put a stop to it long before they did. Now time to settle it, move on and do better.
Guess what, they're still putting tracking cookies without the user's consent. I have Little Snitch and have been playing this "cat & mouse" game for quite some time. I don't even use Google search and run with my cookies off until absolutely necessary. I have changed the permissions on the local storage folder but they now put their stuff into the cache.
Flash puts their cookies somewhere on my system even when Click-to-Flash is not clicked. I know because I use KFC but the cookies are written back as soon as I open Safari. Most Internet users don't realize what's going on in the background. We need better privacy protections. AI is one of the worst tracking offenders.
1. How does zeobit.com (or however you spell it) bypass 'block cookies always' in Safari?
2. How does TPB bypass 'block popups' in Safari?
3. Why when I sometimes delete a cookie (eg zeobit) in Safari prefs does it literally 1 second later reappear before by eyes and require an additional subsequent deletion to be gone?
These are ongoing issues with Safari that I think need to seriously be addressed.
It's being rewritten by Abode's Flash even if you're not using it. See my other post here.
For example, there are seven trackers on this page.
Speaking of AI doing things related to ads, does anyone see some of the words in their posts turning green with a blue line underneath? Or whatever it is; I’m not on the computer that did it right now.
When I saw that, it reminded me of those sites that throw ads on hover states in words of articles, which is, in my mind, the third sickest, most pathetic form of visual advertising available to the Internet right now. Is that what those are? If so, I’m glad the combination of whatever blockers I’m using here stops them.
If you're not using the Ghostery browser plugin, you may want to try it. Very eye opening. For example, there are seven trackers on this page.
I'm using DNT+ and LS and yes there are 7 trackers on this forum page and that's down from 14 before Safari added more protection. All the Mac sites are making big $$ on us.
I say dig deeper into Google other business activities, see what we find, and fine harder.
They have nothing to fear if they're innocent, right?
I suspect you are on the right track. Google is in the business of collecting data - they essentially give their products away, and make money off of information the products deliver to them. Were they "found out" because this was the only time they have violated privacy or because they didn't handle it as well as they usually do. It looks like there model is to control devices in every aspect of our lives as they can, to record what we are doing.
I'm not saying it's nefarious in nature, and it may only be used for ad business - but, we shouldn't be surprised when abuses are discovered, nor stunned if they use the data at our expense.
17million is a fraction of the cost of doing business. Google will keep doing this. The government shouldve made them pay a billion dollars. I guarantee the unlawful behavior would stop.
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Couch cushion change. Pointless.
We should start a class action lawsuit against those evil merchants in Mountain View. Google is just plain evil.
Thankfully, I don't have their OS.
Good. . Whether really by accident or purposefully it shouldn't have happened. Personally I think that even if it started out as a surprise I doubt it took Google long to recognize what the result was. They shoulda put a stop to it long before they did. Now time to settle it, move on and do better.
Guess what, they're still putting tracking cookies without the user's consent. I have Little Snitch and have been playing this "cat & mouse" game for quite some time. I don't even use Google search and run with my cookies off until absolutely necessary. I have changed the permissions on the local storage folder but they now put their stuff into the cache.
Flash puts their cookies somewhere on my system even when Click-to-Flash is not clicked. I know because I use KFC but the cookies are written back as soon as I open Safari. Most Internet users don't realize what's going on in the background. We need better privacy protections. AI is one of the worst tracking offenders.
I use a little program called littlesnitch, and you would be surprised about all the things Google is doing behind the scene of your computer.
If you're not using the Ghostery browser plugin, you may want to try it. Very eye opening. For example, there are seven trackers on this page.
Somewhat unrelated:
1. How does zeobit.com (or however you spell it) bypass 'block cookies always' in Safari?
2. How does TPB bypass 'block popups' in Safari?
3. Why when I sometimes delete a cookie (eg zeobit) in Safari prefs does it literally 1 second later reappear before by eyes and require an additional subsequent deletion to be gone?
These are ongoing issues with Safari that I think need to seriously be addressed.
It's being rewritten by Abode's Flash even if you're not using it. See my other post here.
As part of a settlement announcement on Monday, Google has agreed to pay out $17 million to 37 U.S. states...
My that's good of them, to pay out a little pocket change and avoid sanctions from the FTC.
Speaking of AI doing things related to ads, does anyone see some of the words in their posts turning green with a blue line underneath? Or whatever it is; I’m not on the computer that did it right now.
When I saw that, it reminded me of those sites that throw ads on hover states in words of articles, which is, in my mind, the third sickest, most pathetic form of visual advertising available to the Internet right now. Is that what those are? If so, I’m glad the combination of whatever blockers I’m using here stops them.
If you're not using the Ghostery browser plugin, you may want to try it. Very eye opening. For example, there are seven trackers on this page.
I'm using DNT+ and LS and yes there are 7 trackers on this forum page and that's down from 14 before Safari added more protection. All the Mac sites are making big $$ on us.
Not about the amount. It’s about the bragging rights to call Google “evil.”
Evil and profitable companies don't care about bragging rights
The Google groupie has spoken.
I say dig deeper into Google other business activities, see what we find, and fine harder.
They have nothing to fear if they're innocent, right?
I suspect you are on the right track. Google is in the business of collecting data - they essentially give their products away, and make money off of information the products deliver to them. Were they "found out" because this was the only time they have violated privacy or because they didn't handle it as well as they usually do. It looks like there model is to control devices in every aspect of our lives as they can, to record what we are doing.
I'm not saying it's nefarious in nature, and it may only be used for ad business - but, we shouldn't be surprised when abuses are discovered, nor stunned if they use the data at our expense.
Really? Samsung didn’t.
Oh right, please talk us through checking all incoming and outgoing googlemail emails so you can target adverts.
Doesn't sound all that private.