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How that's "wtf"? If I don't want companies to make statistics using what I do that sounds perfectly legitimate to me. Now then again DNT is an intent, the ven
by zobzu 14y ago
How that's "wtf"? If I don't want companies to make statistics using what I do that sounds perfectly legitimate to me.
Now then again DNT is an intent, the vendor does whatever he likes, and can support DNT for other features and still have statistics. There's no list of things you can do or not do. There's no agreement either. It's just the user indicating that they don't want to be tracked in any way.
- einhverfr 14y agoIt's a wtf because you can't draw any good lines on statistics. Web server admins have legitimate reasons to track (i.e. log) all requests to some extent against their web sites. We have good tools to help analyse a lot of this. Consider a real world equivalent. Suppose you walk into a bookstore and buy a book with cash. The store might not be able to track you individually but they can track how many people visited, how many books they sold, etc. You can't say that's not legitimate. So I could see an argument that the line that should be drawn is one that involved tracking cookies, but that is quite a narrow exclusion regarding statistics of individual users. You can still get pretty good stuff from the access log and there's no case to be made that DNT means Do Not Log.
- zobzu 14y agoStatistics != "logging" Then again anyone is free to track/not track, stat/not stat (so far at least) and only "not track" subset of their data (as long as they don't lie) Then again there's a few privacy-aware websites who do logging and some stats but on pseudonymized IPs which is also a pretty decent compromise.
- einhverfr 14y agoBut what about mining statistics from logs?