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so, DNT can be recommended to you and your close ones, but not the general public? that is some entitlement you have going on there. i applaud microsoft for pr
by gcb0 13y ago
so, DNT can be recommended to you and your close ones, but not the general public? that is some entitlement you have going on there.
i applaud microsoft for protecting their customers, instead of selling them out like google does with android.
also, most big advertisers chose to ignore DNT only for IE. so no, it has not been dead for that long.
- mpyne 13y agoThe whole point of DNT is that it is a voluntary measure by advertisers to avoid tracking people who don't want to be tracked. Given that turning DNT on by default would essentially turn DNT on for everybody, supporting DNT in that scenario would have imploded the whole business model of the same advertisers. Obviously they're not going to voluntarily decide to go out of business, so the advertisers then dropped support for DNT entirely. Now no one gets the benefit of DNT, not even the privacy-conscious minority who actually cared about it. Welcome to second and third-order effects...
- gcb0 13y agowe already beat that horse to death. it is not enable by default. it is SHOWN to the user to chose. and the checkbox is enabled by default, because, let's agree on this, microsoft did their homework and that is the best choice to recomend to their users. it is never enabled against the user knowledge. it is just the correct default when it is presented to them. and again, by no-one, you mean YOU. you are pissed off that everyone is not disabled on DNT and not even shown the option, and only you and other tech savvy people can benefit.