Comments on: Safarigate: Benign Behavior or Malignant Breach? http://www.stlr.org/2012/02/safarigate-benign-behavior-or-malignant-breach/ Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: hughw http://www.stlr.org/2012/02/safarigate-benign-behavior-or-malignant-breach/comment-page-1/#comment-15242 hughw Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:11:00 +0000 http://www.stlr.org/?p=1760#comment-15242 "it makes sense for Google to treat browser preferences as a real expression of user preferences. Otherwise, it seems unclear what forum users have left. "  Google maintains that its users had expressed their preference, not in the Safari  browser, but in agreeing to Google's TOS. They executed their third party cookie trick only for  'signed-in Google users on Safari who had opted to see personalized ads and other content--such as the ability to "+1" things that interest them.' “it makes sense for Google to treat browser preferences as a real expression of user preferences. Otherwise, it seems unclear what forum users have left. ” 

Google maintains that its users had expressed their preference, not in the Safari  browser, but in agreeing to Google’s TOS. They executed their third party cookie trick only for  ’signed-in Google users on Safari who had opted to see personalized ads and other content–such as the ability to “+1″ things that interest them.’

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