YouTube's new cookie policy won't track whitehouse.gov videos - PC World

June 13, 2009

In an apparent acknowledgment of the concerns expressed by privacy advocates, YouTube has changed its use of tracking cookies for videos embedded on the Whitehouse.gov Web site.

A spokesman for the company today confirmed a blog item on the Electronic Frontier Foundation Web site that said YouTube is no longer logging account cookies for videos viewed on Whitehouse.gov. According to the EFF item, YouTube is basically ignoring information from cookies on the White House site amid concerns the data would allow for improper tracking of visitors to the site...