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Google harshly accused by Microsoft for spying!

It`s not news exactly that Google Chrome spies on every activity of it`s users. They are tracking the activities of the users to help Google display results to the user which are more relevant and matching the preferences of the user based on the online activity of the users. At least they say so :(    I wrote about it before HERE

Google Is Shit

 

There are certain evil made “code” inside Google Chrome which sends all the information of the online activity of the user to the Google Servers. Adds it to your own account with Google. And it is not your Gmail or Google or YouTube account, NO it a “special”account where all your searches are being stored with dates and times and off course the search word. So if you have a COLD for ex, they know exactly when you had it and everything else you searched for at that time. IDIOTS! Therefore when the user uses Google Search engine next time, it displays all the searches which are matching the preferences of the user. Not only Chrome but all the Google Products track all their users.

All the activities on the Internet are monitored by Google and other BIG search engines. Except( Ixquick, Startpage or Duckduckgo)The automatic programs of different search engines are continuously monitoring the traffic and its behavior on various websites. This is done by the search engines to make sure that the user gets all the relevant results for the searches that he makes in the search bar. The monitoring activities which are carried out by the search engines help them improve the quality of service which it provides to the user. At least they say so :( But now Microsoft also attacks Google and their SPY activity’s.

Internet Explorer 9 logo

Microsoft now also join the larger group that now accuses Google for spying. Microsoft now accuse Google of bypassing Internet Explorer 9’s privacy settings. This is another affair related to cookies, but Google still defends their practices.? ie9logoMicrosoft seems to be planning an attack against Google by criticizing them for not respecting user’s privacy. While Google is unifying their privacy settings across all products from the 1st of March, Microsoft have used their announcement to criticize these rules through an advertising campaign (see our news).

The battle is not over, with revelations being published in The Wall Street Journal about Google spying on users of Apple’s Safari browser. This indiscretion is based on advertising which is based on cookies. With Internet Explorer, Microsoft also claims that they have been the victim of Google bypassing their privacy settings: “Google employs similar methods to bypass the default privacy protection settings used in IE, and to while diverting IE users with cookies.” Microsoft’s Vice-president of Internet Explorer, Dean Hachamovitch explains that by default IE blocks third party cookies unless a P3P declaration indicates that the site doesn’t use the cookie to trace users. Microsoft accuses Google of sending a character chain – a “nuance in the P3P specification” – which tricks the browser by making it think that the cookie won’t be used for tracking.

P3P: CP=”This is not a P3P policy! See http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151657 for more info.”

“By sending this text, Google bypasses the cookie protection and allows access to third party cookies rather than blocking them”. This text indicates that it isn’t a P3P policy and provides a link to a Google help page providing additional information where it explains that W3C’s P3P protocol (Platform for Privacy Preferences) defines the confidentiality settings in practise, although not as they have been conceived for various situations.

Google fires back : Microsoft hasn’t said though that Facebook and a lot of other sites including Amazon react in the same way as Google. Google has also answered that according to a 2010 study (PDF), more than 11 000 Web sites out of 33 000 don’t conform to a P3P policy like that desired by Microsoft. According to a Google spokesperson (via Ars Technica), Facebook’s Like button, the possibility of connecting to Web sites via a Google account and hundreds of modern services would be made “inoperable with Microsoft’s P3P policy”. “Today, Microsoft’s policy is largely non-operational”. The P3P standard dates from 2002. In the study cited by Google, we note that msn.com and live.com… both operated by Microsoft, don’t respect the standard either (although Microsoft.com does).,

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