{"id":4371,"date":"2012-02-20T20:56:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T01:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4371"},"modified":"2012-02-20T20:56:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T01:56:42","slug":"googles-cookie-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/20\/googles-cookie-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&rsquo;s Cookie Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/SB10001424052970204880404577225380456599176-lMyQjAxMTAyMDEwNjExNDYyWj.html\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/SB10001424052970204880404577225380456599176-lMyQjAxMTAyMDEwNjExNDYyWj.html\"><p>To get around Safari&rsquo;s default blocking, Google exploited a loophole in the browser&rsquo;s privacy settings. While Safari does block most tracking, it makes an exception for websites with which a person interacts in some way&mdash;for instance, by filling out a form. So Google added coding to some of its ads that made Safari think that a person was submitting an invisible form to Google. Safari would then let Google install a cookie on the phone or computer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/ie\/archive\/2012\/02\/20\/google-bypassing-user-privacy-settings.aspx\">Dean Hachamovitch<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2012\/02\/20\/not-just-safari\">John Gruber<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/ie\/archive\/2012\/02\/20\/google-bypassing-user-privacy-settings.aspx\"><p>When the IE team heard that Google had bypassed user privacy settings on Safari, we asked ourselves a simple question: is Google circumventing the privacy preferences of Internet Explorer users too? We&rsquo;ve discovered the answer is yes: Google is employing similar methods to get around the default privacy protections in IE and track IE users with cookies.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal: To get around Safari&rsquo;s default blocking, Google exploited a loophole in the browser&rsquo;s privacy settings. While Safari does block most tracking, it makes an exception for websites with which a person interacts in some way&mdash;for instance, by filling out a form. So Google added coding to some of its ads that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4372,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions\/4372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}