WSJ: Google caught circumventing iPhone security, tracking users who opted out of third-party cookies

Google has been caught circumventing iOS's built-in anti-ad-tracking features in order to add Google Plus functionality within iPhone's Safari browser. The WSJ reports that Google overrode users' privacy settings in order to allow messages like "your friend Suzy +1'ed this ad about candy" to be relayed between Google's different domains, including google.com and doubleclick.net. This also meant that doubleclick.net was tracking every page you landed on with a Doubleclick ad, even if you'd opted out of its tracking.

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In the iPhone case, it's likely that Google has gone beyond lowering the quality of its service for its users and customers, and has now started to violate the law, and certainly to undermine the trust that the company depends on.

I don't know WTF Google is doing.

I am getting more and more disturbed by their behavior.

My sister boycotts them, and I ask her why any of the other 1000lb gorillas are less bad, and she says it's because Google promised to not be evil.

I'm not sure why she thinks any massive corporation is making promises they're going to keep on a personal moral level. The idea is so laughable and irrelevant I wasn't paying attention from the start.

I saw an ad for a bank on TV where they filmed random people on the street and asked them to read from a script. The script was the standard customer "service" responses you get. They were about as believable as the people you get on the phone. sigh

That happened to a friend, but when she complained, they told her that she got charged because she sent it to voicemail instead of letting it ring out. If the phone was off or she le it ring out, she didnt get charged.

Yeah, my parents were calling me at 3 in the morning; I couldn't let that shit ring out. I was able to get the charges taken off, though. At least, I think so. One guy said he would do it, and then I think they were still there, and I called again, and now I don't remember whether I was credited or not.

So, for private online journaling, ita !, there's Penzu. It looks like it does most things we want (including tagging & encryption), but only in the paid version, which is $19/year. (crass commercialism: if anyone upgrades using my referral link they'll get 20% off and I'll get it free.) I'm pretty happy with it so far.

I'm not interested in online, Liese, but thanks. I just wanted a time-stamped app for my tablet or phone that could arrange my info in a calender. Cloud-syncing would be fine, but I don't want to have a net connection to update or read.

Word 2010 issue. I have a third blank page on a Word doc -- it's a resume -- and I cannot get the damn thing to disappear! It's BLANK! I don't want it!

I've backspaced up, of course, and I didn't add a page break or anything. It's just an extra damn blank page, and it needs to die! And Help is giving me no joy.

Thoughts?

Do you have the formatting marks on?

Yeah, that's what I was going to say, turn on the formatting marks and delete whatever you see at the end, there's likely some funky formatting hung out there. Used to happen to me with envelopes, super annoying.

ita, I think I've conflated what you're looking for calendering with journaling, sorry. Anyway, Penzu does have an Android app, the paid version, which can be used offline. The web interface obviously isn't, but I have apparently given up on that for anything but Evernote. I suppose Evernote might do for what I want, too, but I would have to rearrange my notebooks over there.