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  It’s Microsoft vs. Google in a Web-Tracking Battle
Time: 08:43 EST/13:43 GMT | News Source: Wall Street Journal | Posted By: Robert Stein

After a Wall Street Journal story last week about Google bypassing the privacy settings on Apple’s Safari Web browser, Microsoft has written a blog post accusing Google of doing similar things on Internet Explorer. But what is happening on IE is a bit different, and it involves a problem that has been known about for some time by Microsoft and privacy researchers. Here’s what’s going on: By default, IE is designed to block little files called “cookies” if they come from tracking companies. But the way it does this is fairly complicated.

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