For Safari Users...

    For Safari Users...


    Posted: 12 Jul 2012
    Google may be nearing a settlement of $22.5 million with the FTC for its willful circumvention of Do Not Track settings in order to keep serving ads, the Wall Street Journal reports. Because Google violated its consent decree with the US government that it would not misrepresent privacy settings to its users, it will pay a penalty of $16,000 for every day that it used its DNT workaround.

    Safari's DNT typically blocks third-party cookies in order to keep users from being tracked by the cookie owners....
    Source: Google may pay $22.5 million penalty for ignoring Safari Do Not Track | Ars Technica
    Anak's Avatar Posted By: Anak
    12 Jul 2012



  1. Posts : 137
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 / OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8
       #1

    Not sure how many PC users opt to use Safari, it's commonplace for a Mac though...
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  2. Posts : 63
    7 64 bit Home Premium
       #2

    What always gets me about crap like this is the government gets the money. How about throwing it at the debt, jerkwads.
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