Google sued for 'clandestine tracking' of UK iPhone users' browsing data

Re:Google sued for 'clandestine tracking' of UK iPhone users... by fixermark on Monday May 21, 2018 @03:44PM (#17121202)

Given the nature of the breakage (tripping over a non-w3c standard heuristic in one browser with no obvious and visible error resulting), I'd assume no engineer knew the code could trigger problematic behavior for some users until I see evidence of intent to the contrary.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Google sued for 'clandestine tracking' of UK iPhone users... by _tulpa on Monday May 21, 2018 @04:40PM (#17121655)

I dunno, a JS workaround for clients with third party cookies turned off seems kinda deliberate...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Google sued for 'clandestine tracking' of UK iPhone users... by fixermark on Monday May 21, 2018 @05:07PM (#17121837)

Unless the workaround was done to enable Google+ functionality (responding directly to user intent to allow a +1 button click to work instead of failing with some kind of "LOL, your third-party cookies are disabled" error) and the breaking of the third-party disable heuristic as it related to general ad tracking was just an unintended side-effect.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Google sued for 'clandestine tracking' of UK iPhone users... by _tulpa on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @07:09AM (#17125071)

Nobody asked for a +1 button, and I'm pretty sure you don't need 3rd party cookies to make it work anyway.

Also pretty sure a company whose bread and butter is pervasive tracking doesn't break a user opt-out method by accident.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Google sued for 'clandestine tracking' of UK iPhone users... by quantum_magpie on Monday May 21, 2018 @09:21PM (#17123128)

Users don't click the +1 buttons.

[ Parent | on HN ]