Google's iPhone Tracking bypassed Apple Browser Settings for Guarding Privacy(online.wsj.com)

44 pointsby desigooner14 yıl önce5 comments

online.wsj.com

Google's iPhone Tracking bypassed Apple Browser Settings for Guarding Privacy

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204880404577225380456599176.html

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acqq14 yıl önce

The researcher who discovered that is

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jonathan-mayer

and

https://www.stanford.edu/~jmayer/

but I can't find anything he wrote related to the issue of this particular news item. Anybody knows?

bazzargh14 yıl önce

He says he's still working on his writeup https://twitter.com/#!/jonathanmayer/status/1703680046458552...

He also links to the EFF coverage: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/time-make-amends-googl...

JeremyBanks14 yıl önce

I 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-sa...

stanleydrew14 yıl önce

If 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

doe8814 yıl önce

But 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.