Following last week’s Wall Street Journal report that Google was sidestepping privacy protections in Apple’s Safari browser, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team now says it has discovered that Google is doing something similar in Internet Explorer.
IE chief Dean Hachamovitch says Microsoft has contacted Google and asked them to honor the privacy settings in question.
The assertion comes amid a larger effort by Microsoft to capitalize on concerns about Google’s broader privacy changes, attempting to get people to dump Google and switch to Microsoft services. There are also questions about whether the Wall Street Journal overstated the implications of what Google was doing in Safari in its report last week.
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