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[ndboarder]

Wasn't Google's motto fairly simplistic.  Something along the lines of don't be evil.  I've been leary of using their services for a while, they track a LOT of your activity and remember it all.  True, this is coming from a big fan of MS (considering I work there).  Regardless of that, a friend pointed the following article out to me as we've recently been tracking and talking about all the changes in Google's privacy policies.

Apparently it was recently learned that they were bypassing some privacy settings in Safari?  I hadn't heard this, but the article linked below talks a bit about it and the research Microsoft did to see if they did the same for IE.  The answer simply is yes, so they are most likely doing this with all browsers.  I say this, because it sounds like the site is supposed to pass policy info, etc to the browser.  The browsers then have to respect and respond to this information.  It appears Google is sending some phony junk that leads the browser to believe cookies won't be used for tracking and then they use them for tracking regardless.

At any rate, it goes on about this and the in depth info.  I can only assume if they did this to get past Sarfari and have done more to get past additional IE privacy stuff that they are bypassing Mozilla browsers as well.  Chrome you ask?  Why would they have to fight chrome, it probably doesn't even respect your privacy settings in the first place....

http://blogs.msdn.co...y-settings.aspx

[nodle]

Google is as evil (maybe even more now) as the rest of them. Maybe in the beginning they weren't but as you become larger, Big Brother always wants to get involved. No one should be surprised at this.

[davec]

The answer is TOR.

https://www.torproje...g/index.html.en

[nodle]

davec, on 04 April 2012 - 02:43 PM, said:

The answer is TOR.

https://www.torproje...g/index.html.en

Tor is great and all, but slow performance etc. Plus Tor is seen kinda as a "Darknet" even though it has legit uses.