Google’s Dirty Little Secret
What’s up with Google exploiting the Safari browser?
Graduate Student Jonathan Mayer uncovered Google’s secret practice of planting information in the form of browser cookies without your knowledge or permission.
Third-party ad agencies, such as ClickThrough, have for years set cookies on your computer so that they can follow customer behavior. As you surf from site to site, this capability enables predictive behavior by advertisers. And you were wondered why that new electronics gadget coincidently kept appearing from site to site. A cookie is a small piece of software that enables this tracking. Apple’s Safari browser has this capability closed my default.
Google figured out a way to open up the gates and plant their own cookies. And they forgot to tell anyone. Bad Google!
Can you imagine the power of the Google search engine unleashed in your browser? You could never have any confidence that the information you were viewing was legitimate. Someone should pay harshly for this.
Full details are at Network World. #bizville
