ke iphone | B Michael Tumblr  Google Tracked iPhones, Bypassing
Apple Browser Privacy Settings   At first glance, this sounds
really bad. I mean, really bad. The Wall Street Journal
essentially sets it up as Google (and other, smaller advertising
players) purposefully circumventing the web browsing privacy
controls on the iPhone in order to track users’ browsing habits.
And when they got caught, Google stopped doing it. Which is
usually not a good sign.  But my initial reaction is that John
Battelle is right. This is much more nuanced than a simple black
and white argument. Mobile Safari does have stricter privacy
controls than other browsers, which is likely a very good thing
for most users, but it also benefits Apple because it
essentially destroys Google’s business.   And it’s a business
that you could argue is helpful to some people for a number of
reasons (all the free services Google is able to provide as a
result, for example).  I just don’t believe this is as big of an
“evil” Google thing as WSJ may