March 5, 2009
Privacy: Google and 3rd party cookies
Discovered several days ago that in order to use GMail Google requires that the 3rd party cookies is enabled in browser! As often said, it hurts the online provacy, but why does google require this? The answer is very simple: to track you by its adsense/doubleclick engines! They can track your path in web only if you enable the 3rd party cookies.
What to do to save your privacy?
1) Use different browsers for web browsing and working in GMail (i.e. Opera for browsing/Firefox for GMail)
2) Use "Enable 3rd party Cookies" setting for all these sites: gmail.com, google.com, google.*/, *.google.*. (You can do this in Opera AFAIK). The default setting for Cookies should be "Accept cookies only from site I visit" (=no 3rd party cookies).
Take care!
PS Do you believe in "Don't be evil" anymore?
What to do to save your privacy?
1) Use different browsers for web browsing and working in GMail (i.e. Opera for browsing/Firefox for GMail)
2) Use "Enable 3rd party Cookies" setting for all these sites: gmail.com, google.com, google.*/, *.google.*. (You can do this in Opera AFAIK). The default setting for Cookies should be "Accept cookies only from site I visit" (=no 3rd party cookies).
Take care!
PS Do you believe in "Don't be evil" anymore?
