On 3/25/2012 10:56 PM, Andrew Lewman wrote:
Thanks for all replies. It doesn't change the (sort of) tongue in cheek comment about being a brilliant move on Google's part. ESPECIALLY in light of Google's new (non) privacy policy, where they can / will / intend to? track users across all their services. In & of itself this isn't * solely * related to html5 content, but it's certainly a big draw to get users to set Google cookies.On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:37:55 -0500 Joe Btfsplk<joebtfsplk@xxxxxxx> wrote:Don't you have to opt in to the html5 videos (or technology), thus meaning creating an acct on (youtube)? Or has that changed?No, you do not have to login to youtube, nor even visit their youtube/html5 page to set the cookie. The current version of torbrowser enables html5 video on youtube by default. Tails uses a greasemonkey script to achieve the same goal. There are many videos which are flash-only, mostly they seem to be the videos with ads injected into the video stream. I have seen some html5 videos with advertising overlays, but the video plays fine in TBB and Tails.
My question to those more knowledgeable about these cookies that google sets, & their NEW privacy policy, is how it affects Tor users? Among other issues, once Google sets a cookie, I don't believe there'd be any difference in Tor / non Tor users, how Google is able to track you across their different sites / domains. The only diff is they'd not see your real IP address.
Since "traffic analysis" seems to be a huge issue for Tor / Tor users, how is being able to track Tor users across multiple sites not an issue? Seems it'd be fairly easy to use this to identify individuals, if someone wanted to. Unless using settings / addons to prevent it, they will have a lot of info about you http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Users really need to read the ENTIRE Google privacy policy. If not taking steps to prevent (Google) from gaining details about your machine, etc., even if users delete a cookie once they leave youtube, etc., then go to another google site that requires cookies, couldn't they probably identify the same computer? Many Tor users will forget to del cookies, since TBB default settings are to accept cookies.
The bigger issue is, today it's Google doing this, tomorrow... who knows? _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk