Comments like this make me angry. Blaming Microsoft for the failure of DNT is ridiculous, because DNT was a sham from Day 1: it was nothing but an "evil bit" th

Comments like this make me angry. Blaming Microsoft for the failure of DNT is ridiculous, because DNT was a sham from Day 1: it was nothing but an "evil bit" that advertisers pretty-promised they'd honor, with nothing whatsoever to hold them to that promise. On a long enough time scale, promises from online advertisers are always lies. Remember when Google said they weren't going to tie anonymous browsing activity to your real identity, and then did? Remember when Facebook totally promised that they wouldn't tie WhatsApp data to Facebook data, and then did? "We'll totally obey DNT, honest" was an equally worthless promise. And it was a promise made in bad faith too. The only reason DNT gained traction was as an attempt to "self-regulate" and avoid the (desperately needed) government regulation of the advertising industry - and there is quite a bit of history showing that self regulation is no regulation. DNT was only ever going to last until turning it on became widespread. Don't blame Microsoft for being the kid who pointed out that the emperor had no clothes.