Why Doesn't Google Comply with Do Not Track?

Re:Why Doesn't Google Comply with Do Not Track? by benologist on Friday December 07, 2018 @05:07PM (#18632143)

Google exploited Safari to track users who had opted-out of being tracked so relying on them to respect a cookie may have been futile even if they supported it.

    The current charges involve Google's use of special 
    computer code to trick Apple's Safari Web-browsing 
    software into letting it monitor users that had blocked 
    such tracking.

https://money.cnn.com/2012/02/17/technology/google_tracking_...

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Re:Why Doesn't Google Comply with Do Not Track? by gonyea on Friday December 07, 2018 @09:38PM (#18633541)

So did literally everybody else building a website that was embedded in an iframe. I was there in 2011, at a startup, copying the same StackOverflow answer as everyone else so we could store cookies in Safari.

This is such a non-issue. It was widely regarded as a bug in Safari.

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Re:Why Doesn't Google Comply with Do Not Track? by jlarocco on Saturday December 08, 2018 @02:26AM (#18634288)

FYI, that's not making Google look good, it's making you look bad.

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Re:Why Doesn't Google Comply with Do Not Track? by sharcerer on Saturday December 08, 2018 @01:12AM (#18634162)

So, is Google guilty in this case? Because i think in UK, a group of iPhone users are suing them. More of a coding practices mistake than a specific company one?

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Re:Why Doesn't Google Comply with Do Not Track? by RedComet on Saturday December 08, 2018 @12:03AM (#18634016)

Oh, well that’s perfectly okay then.

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