Google deliberately bypass the Mac OS X and iOS operating system in the Safari browser the default privacy settings in this criticism.
Stanford University graduate student Jonathan Meyer. Jonathon Mayer, found that this particular approach taken by Google on the Safari browser. He pointed out that Google is written specifically to bypass the code in order to support its own Safari browser privacy settings Doubleclick advertising.
The Safari browser default settings to protect users in search of the browser on the network is not a third-party advertisers to track. Meyer said in a blog, Apple’s Safari browser default settings to block third party cookies. We found that four companies unexpectedly to place tracking cookies in the Safari browser. Google and Vibrant Media deliberately circumvent Safari’s privacy features.
Mayer said that Google and three other online marketing company to submit a form in order to support the tracking of users in an invisible “iframe” secret. After the Wall Street Journal to get in touch with Google, Google shut down this function. The Wall Street Journal first reported last Thursday of Google’s practices.
Meyer found the top 100 sites, 22 sites installed Google’s tracking code, and 23 website to install the Google code to iOS devices. Meyer speculated that Google write this code in order to improve the efficiency of its advertising, and not deliberate intrusion.
Google said in a statement to the “Financial Times”, it “is not expected to happen. We have now started to remove these advertising cookies are in the Safari browser.”