Google had promised not to monitor the online activities of Safari browser users as long as the users didn’t change their settings to permit such tracking. The FTC alleged that Google broke this promise by placing cookies on the devices of Safari browser users when they visited sites served by the company’s DoubleClick ad network. As a consequence, DoubleClick was able to show those users targeted ads, even when the browser was set in Do Not Track mode. Google is not admitting any wrongdoing in this matter. For its part, it claims that something in Apple’s browser caused an unintentional vi…