Google caught skirting Safari privacy settingsSites use files called "cookies" to follow users' movements and log-ins as they travel through the Web. Apple's (AAPL, Fortune 500) Safari has far ...

As promised in May, Google has brought the open-source Gears technology to Apple's Safari, augmenting some browser abilities such as using Gears-tailored Web sites while offline.

We used known Safari functionality to provide features that signed-in Google users had enabled. It’s important to stress that these advertising cookies do not collect personal information.” ...

Whether Google succeeded in persuading Safari users to switch to Chrome or not is a separate issue. What remains interesting to know is the final judgement of the US Justice Department on the matter.

Apparently, though the cookies Google placed were set to expire after 12 to 24 hours, a quirk in Safari means companies can add more cookies to a computer once one cookie has been deposited.

Google is testing a new feature called "Script blocking in Incognito" in Chrome for Windows (Windows 11/10) and Android..

This would mean Safari users wouldn’t see AI Overviews in search results, but people using Google’s own apps would. Google, however, “ultimately decided against that move,” the report says.

Google’s (DoubleClick’s, technically, but ultimately it’s Google’s) special cookie dispenser, however, would detect that Safari was being used, and “fill out” a form element on the ...

Google got around Safari’s privacy restrictions by exploiting a loophole that allowed the search giant to install a temporary cookie if a user clicked a +1 button embedded in online advertising ...

One proposal involved limiting Google's innovative AI Overviews feature - which generates AI-powered responses to search queries - to its own apps, effectively excluding Safari users.

The Wall Street Journal has caught Google with its hand in the cookie jar of Apple's Safari users, after privacy-circumventing code was discovered in Google's adverts.