YouTube Limits Cookie Tracking on White House Website
Found on PhysOrg on Thursday, 22 January 2009
With the launch of President Obama's White House website, three days ago, there has been extensive use of YouTube videos on the site. As we all know Google now owns YouTube and tracks every visitor that lands on the YouTube website or plays a YouTube video.
By Thursday evening the White House website replace the YouTube video player with an image of their own player.
There is really no good reason for Google to track White House website visitors who choose to watch a video that was produced by the White House staff and paid for by the taxpayers.
Cookies? You mean those annoying little pieces which people should have been blocking for years by now? Not to forget the even more annoying Flash cookies, which aren't handled by browsers. But a quick change of write permissions to the directory #SharedObjects solves that too.