While one Google team was taking advantage of a little-known backdoor that could change the default Safari setting, the Google Chrome team was working to get Apple to close the backdoor.
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Privacy brouhaha reveals Google’s split personality | InSecurity Complex - CNET News
Meanwhile, Google’s Chrome team offers an Advertising Cookie Opt-Out Plugin that lets people do exactly what Safari’s default setting provides: block third-party cookies. Oddly, the instructions for confirming the default settings in Safari on that page were removed as The Wall Street Journal was preparing its news report.
