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>> Should we special-case the cookie value "OPT_OUT"? It would be unfortunate indeed if removing old cookies meant that users who had opted out of interest-base
by ZiiS 8y ago
>> Should we special-case the cookie value "OPT_OUT"? It would be unfortunate indeed if removing old cookies meant that users who had opted out of interest-based advertising started being targeted again. Perhaps excluding the special value OPT_OUT (and asking advertisers to standardize on it?) is justifiable.
Still suggesting the Evil Bit? https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt
- _verandaguy 8y agoTo be fair, the evil bit's a great idea; it just failed to get much support from the malware developer community.
- John_KZ 8y agoMaybe they didn't ask them nicely enough. Likewise, instead of using technical measures to stop websites from acquiring analytics, we can make them pinky-swear to delete out data. This simply cannot go wrong.