Google's privacy practices came under fire again last week for undermining the privacy practices of someone else. Namely, Apple. Apple is one of the few browser makers that turns off by default a website's ability to push third-party cookies to a Web surfer. Cookies can perform a valuable service to users. If you want your home page on Google to be laid out in a certain way every time you land on it, for example, a cookie for the site does that for you. However, cookies can also be used to track where you go on the Web and feed that info back to third-party marketers.

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