taken to safe houses owned by members of the network some were even put up uncomfortable her towels the maffia picked up a tap others had to sleep in student apartments under beds on the floor they always had for instructions on the next most dangerous leg of their escape crossing the border to hong kong. their yellow but activists were running out of time the 1st dissidents would be arriving from the chinese mainland any day now. chinese secret agent world hot pursuit but so far no arrangements were in place to transfer the fugitives to 3rd party countries western states were reluctant to anger china. regs and by the i knew a french diplomat in fact the mission they came out and met me in the street and i talked to him i said look we need help because. when these people are brought in to
wasn t raised by reason privacy scandals so how does tracking work and what role do cookies play. whenever you visit a new website it s highly likely you ll be asked to accept cookies cookies or small text files that are placed on a user s device they contain information such as the user name entered or the language or website was accessed and. it s important to distinguish between 1st party cookies and 3rd party cookies. first party cookies are placed by the website being visited they can only be read by that domains owners and can help provide a good user experience. 3rd party cookies on the other hand do not come from the site being decided they come from 3rd parties which interact in a global industry as this web page shows these data collectors are often linked to
advertisements for social media buttons and can track a user over multiple websites. and they can harvest much more data than most users are aware of. it will be limiting online track and cookies a move it presents as a noble deeds to protect users privacy. the changes will concern chrome browser over 60 percent of us use other browsers like firefox or safari added automatic anti tracking features long ago so it looks like google is finally catching up. google announced its chrome update will allow users to block and delete 3rd party cookies visiting a website usually creates a number of 3rd party cookies running in the background many of which track users over different web pages. one challenge the browser update will have to solve is how to not delete cookies that are hopeful for the user. dish cookies via cookies
tell the other side something about me. now that might be useful if i m shopping online for example because it lets a website recall which items i ve already placed in my shopping cart and invite uncork addict. as a user and i m like i want that remember that i don t whether i d want a 3rd party is advertisers or trackers to know about it is an entirely separate questions on that since the guys might agree with the website provider knowing something which i wouldn t want to 3rd party to know. to do that and beaten the straightest. google wants to tackle the problem and allow users to distinguish and it also wants to make it easier to see who 3rd party cookies are from. chrome has also taken on so called fingerprinting a method for creating a unique fingerprint of your computer instead of cookies fingerprinting relies on metal data such as time zones screen resolution for plug ins it s almost impossible
for users to notice not to mention stop how well comes privacy settings will work well to a large extent depends on how user friendly they are. is already offered several different privacy settings but none of them have been easy to find nor have they contained restrictions for 3rd party cookies. so party caucus. who can do 2 people actively search for those settings is a us them card or they leave everything in their default settings for to maybe to their disadvantage. the best of these things were set more strictly by default in the state feel. experience with previous updates has shown that when users have to actively seek out and choose their settings few will go those extra steps. to truly protect user privacy it needs to be guaranteed by the default setting i myself often don t have time to switch my settings when i visited new and