Yesterday it was Twitter engaging in misAPPropriation of smartphone users’ address book data.
Now it’s Google end-running privacy settings to monitor its search engine users.
From Friday’s Wall Street Journal:
Google’s iPhone Tracking
Web Giant, Others Bypassed Apple Browser Settings for Guarding Privacy
The relentless Julia Angwin co-writes:
Google Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Inc.’s Web browser on their iPhones and computers—tracking the Web-browsing habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocked.
The companies used special computer code that tricks Apple’s Safari Web-browsing software into letting them monitor many users. Safari, the most widely used browser on mobile devices, is designed to block such tracking by default.
Google disabled its code after being contacted by The Wall Street Journal.
Of course they did.
Originally posted on the Newer! Improveder! Sneak ADtack!
Campaign Outsider 
There’s a Google+ angle to this, and it doesn’t surprise me, given that Google seems intent upon wrecking the company in order to promote its worthless social network. I recently switched from Chrome to Safari after Google found some old settings I’d saved on its server and overwrote all my current ones. One more stunt like that and I might start looking at Bing.
Somehow, I don’t think that your threat is a real worry.
If you read their terms of service carefully, you will see that they granted themselves permission to alter settings and you signed on to them when you accepted the agreement.
It’s annoying as all get out. But with your acceptance of their ToS, annoyed is all you can be.
Yeah, but why get technical about it, Mudge?
I’ll come right out and say it: If you’ve lost Dan Kennedy, you’ve lost middle America.
Let’s not quibble about “who killed who.”