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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 03 2012 @ 08:27 PM EDT |
end result being Apache coding to completely IGNORE the flag EVEN IF activated
by an informed user. End result - user tracked, but Microsoft can say it was
NOT due to them! Bad move by Apache.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: celtic_hackr on Friday, October 05 2012 @ 11:31 AM EDT |
First, Microsoft is doing this to appear like the good guy. But it really
isn't.
Secondly, DNT is a joke. No advertiser is going to "voluntarily"
"not track" you if they can without getting fined or caught.
Thirdly, MS is creating it's own internal adtracker for the Windows OS.
So the only thing MS accomplishes by setting DNT to default on, is ... nothing.
So the take away here is: MS will now be tracking you more than ever, and if DNT
ever becomes mandatory for advertisers to honor, and I think MS is planning on
some legislation to head that way, then MS has a built into the OS ad system
that all other advertisers would need to pay MS to use. (#3. Profit!)
In other words MS is now in the Embrace and Extend stage. Classic MS MO.
It simply amazes me how people can still be so blind to Microsoft's blatant and
obvious (at least to me) habitual behavior. MS hasn't changed it's tactics in
the more than 30 years they've been in existence. You'd think people would find
them predictable by now.
Why all these folks are upset about DNT defaulting to "on" is just
silly. Why the standard defaults to off is equally silly. The logic for setting
the default sillier yet. Who thinks these things up a six year old in Tibet?
"Do not track me please", what a freaking joke! But maybe some of
them see MS taking a stance and saying, "Uh Oh! MS is up to something
eeevviiiilll again, but we don't know what it is. So we'd better attack
now."
In the mean time, when I don't want to be tracked I'll simply use TOR. Of
course, I'd really like to never be tracked ever, and have gone to a mostly cash
existence. Which is of course challenging today. but I'm easily tracked, since I
make a living with computers, and life has moved in a very-large-scale way to
Internet.
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