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Google Toolbar (on IE8) tracks some browsing even when it’s not supposed to

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

Tuesday, January 26, 2010
14 years ago2,196 views

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100126/tc_pcworld/googletoolbartrackssomebrowsingevenwhenitsnotsupposedto

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

googletoolbartrackssomebrowsingevenwhenitsnotsupposedto

It's one of the baddest URL rewriting I've ever seen.

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Absolutely! :)

"A bug in Google Toolbar has resulted in the search giant receiving information about users' Web surfing in violation of the product's privacy policy, according to an anti-spyware and privacy researcher. In a report to be released Tuesday, Ben Edelman, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, shows that under certain circumstances the Google Toolbar (versions 6.3 and above) tracks the browser habits of Internet Explorer 8 users who have activated the toolbar's "enhanced features" even when the toolbar is turned off or disabled.
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