Party advertising companies, including Google, have a privacy option of Safari are bypassed. Via a detour placed the companies ‘ third-party cookies. According to Google, that was a mistake; Apple is going to loophole closing.
The loophole makes it possible to get a third party cookie, which is Safari by default blocks. A advertentieprovider place to do this in a iframe to a form that will automatically submit. Then a cookie is placed. In that case only accepts Safari the cookie, writes The Wall Street Journal, because the browser thinks that the user have a form filled in and sent, and the cookie is so desirable.
Third party cookies are set by advertentieproviders used to users across different websites to monitor. Safari is the only browser that by default blocks, but thanks to the loophole may be millions of users, so I followed.
With Safari, the Google tracking code on 22 of the 100 most popular websites installed on the iPhone was that in 23 of the 100 most popular sites. In addition to Google would three other technology companies, the protection of privacy in Safari have bypassed, including Vibrant Media.
According to Google, is the loophole not aware used to track users. The search giant wanted to check whether users were logged into Google+, so it could be determined whether the +1 button on ads visible. That way users could be followed, was not intended, Google.
“The Wall Street Journal gives a false picture of what happened and why”, shows spokeswoman Rachel Whetstone of Google, in a statement to know. According to Whetstone go to the general, well-known functionality in Safari and there were no personal data is collected.
As a Google user was logged in, there was an empty cookie is placed for 12 hours remained present; for logged-in users was 24 hours. Safari web sites which is once a cookie have been placed, however, allow cookies to remain in place, even if that third party cookies are. Who thus in a short time, twice Google visited had a permanent tracking cookie; that was at the second visit, namely, if desired, be considered. Writes in Whetstone in her statement: “We did not foresee that this would happen, and have started removing these cookies from Safari browsers.”
A spokesperson of Vibrant Media are doing the work of the privacy protection as a ‘workaround’ which is aimed at to Safari just to make it behave as other browsers. Apple has announced the loophole or workaround, to be sealed.