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

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

by desigooner • 14 years ago

44 5 14 years ago

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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...

stanleydrew• 14 years ago

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

doe88• 14 years ago

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.

acqq• 14 years ago

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?

bazzargh• 14 years ago

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...

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

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