The report made by researches revealed that two big U.S. carriers, including AT&T plan, were tracking their subscriber’s web traffic through perma-cookies. Such unusual AT&T web activity track option surely gained much attention and users weren’t happy with such company’s polity.
The same practice is still being used by Verizon, and this U.S. isn’t going to stop using the super cookies web tracking. Do you care if your mobile company tracks what and how you visit on the web? Would you rather be AT&T iPhone user or Verizon subscriber? Which carrier do you like more?
Would you like your mobile company track what sites you visit from your iPhone or other mobile device? Most people don’t like it when anyone is following their personal activity, and such AT&T cookies plan is no longer used. The company assured it no longer uses perma-cookies and doesn’t track user’s web usage this way.
As noted in the company’s statement, it stopped using the long chain of letters and numbers that were previously passed along to the sites that the person opened. AT&T tracking web traffic experiment [it looks like the company gave the relevant advertising a try and then dropped down the plan] came to an end, at least the method that involved perma cookies did.
