Friday, March 9, 2012
WSJ: Safari loophole lets Google track Apple users through web ads
Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer has found a loophole that allows curious Safari Google to monitor the activity of a user's traffic through ropes web advertising cookies. Consequently, Apple's browser normally accept cookies from sites you visit one user, but automatically blocks third party advertisers. As Mayer has learned, however, advertisers can still work around this filter to prompt the user to interact with the ads in different ways. For Google, the search giant built a "1" button on the advertisements produced with the technology of DoubleClick as part of an opt-in feature for Google and users. If a user connects to Google +, and had agreed to see a display ad, he or she would have planted a cookie on your machine, using a system that sends invisible forms of computers or Apple iPhone. This makes it appear as if a user sends really intentionally, thereby convince Safari to allow cookies. These cookies are only temporary, with life expectancy up to 24 hours, but that could open the door for many others, since Safari allows sites to be planted after receiving access to install at least one.
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