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IE10 is not disabling tracking, it enables a REQUEST to disable tracking | 751 comments | Create New Account
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IE10 is not disabling tracking, it enables a REQUEST to disable tracking
Authored by: bugstomper on Wednesday, October 03 2012 @ 08:49 PM EDT
Here's the sequence of events:

1. Web servers have the ability to track users using cookies and so forth, and
companies who run web servers have the ability to share information. There is no
practical technological fix that would disable those abilities.

2. The imposition by the Federal Trade Commission of a "Do Not Track
List", similar to the Do Not Call List for telemarketers, was headed off by
Mozilla and then other browser manufacturers adopting a Do Not Track header for
browsers, and getting buy-in from advertisers for the voluntary system.

3. You can see from this that Microsoft has not disabled tracking by default in
IE10. They have only made the default installation of IE10 enable the Do Not
Track Header. That does nothing for the privacy of their users if advertisers do
not voluntarily obey the DNT header setting. It breaks the agreement provided by
the standard that the DNT header only be set to indicate the user actively
selecting the option not to be tracked. It removes the reason that advertisers
have to honor the flag. It allows Microsoft to trumpet itself as a defender of
users' privacy while actually harming users' privacy because they are setting up
a situation where the DNT flag won't be honored.

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+1 for Microsoft (good will bank still nearly empty)
Authored by: micheas on Thursday, October 04 2012 @ 11:30 AM EDT
Actually the spec says that the user has to make a choice.

The best default would be neither off nor on and for the browser to not work until the user made a selection. (with this being overridable during an automated install on a company by company basis, but not on an OEM or VAR)

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