What bothers me here is that Google broke a contract. Since there is no way to determine between people who intentionally set that preference and those who are just using the default settings, I guess they consider us "collateral damage."
They could have gone public with the issue. They could have alerted users and given them the option to change the defaults. They could have found some interesting ways to make allowing 3rd-party cookies more advantageous to the consumer.
Instead, they coded a hack to intentionally ignore your privacy settings. Maybe it's not a huge action, but I can't hold that action in my head together with the mantra of "do no evil." I just can't. And I'm truly saddened by that.
They could have gone public with the issue. They could have alerted users and given them the option to change the defaults. They could have found some interesting ways to make allowing 3rd-party cookies more advantageous to the consumer.
Instead, they coded a hack to intentionally ignore your privacy settings. Maybe it's not a huge action, but I can't hold that action in my head together with the mantra of "do no evil." I just can't. And I'm truly saddened by that.