Google faces UK legal action for bypassing iPhone privacy settings to target ads

Re:Google faces UK legal action for bypassing iPhone privacy... by ConfucianNardin on Thursday November 30, 2017 @04:43AM (#15814572)

It seems there were/are a couple of workarounds for setting third party cookies in Safari.

One was to send a POST request in a hidden iframe using javascript. This was supposedly what Google used to bypass Safari's blocking of third party cookies[1].

Another is (was?) to redirect to the third party domain, and then back again[2]. This would supposedly work since the restriction on third party cookies doesn't apply to already visited domains.

1: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9930671/safari-3rd-party...

2: http://www.mendoweb.be/blog/internet-explorer-safari-third-p...

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Re:Google faces UK legal action for bypassing iPhone privacy... by zencash on Thursday November 30, 2017 @09:39AM (#15815977)

I work in adtech.

Google have recently rolled out a 'global tag' to replace the 'floodlight' tracking code they usually use, this was last week.

[1] https://support.google.com/dcm/partner/answer/7570440?hl=en

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Re:Google faces UK legal action for bypassing iPhone privacy... by dreamcompiler on Thursday November 30, 2017 @10:12AM (#15816307)

Thanks for that! Always good to know how to block new trackers.

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