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Microsoft's Ad Team Trumps IE Developers' Privacy Aims
phantomfive writes "The company everyone loves to hate is after your private information, as the Wall Street Journal reports. The IE8 design team had planned on adding the best privacy features available, but the advertising executives wanted to track users. From the story: 'In the end, the product planners lost a key part of the debate. The winners: executives who argued that giving automatic privacy to consumers would make it tougher for Microsoft to profit from selling online ads. Microsoft built its browser so that users must deliberately turn on privacy settings every time they start up the software.'"
The difference is that Microsoft is evil and Firefox is good, so there's no problem in Firefox violating my privacy...
Birds fly...
fish swim...
and people...
Upper managment meddles. That's what they do.
Or because the average user is running around the Internet looking for instant gratification and simply won't learn about security. You might as well try to teach a clown with a condom on his nose.
MSFT has designed yet another piece of software you'd have to be a complete idiot to use.
So, you are saying they designed it for the average user?
If you have to ask that question, then you really shouldn't be teaching clowns.
Not really. I don't recall "USA" being a stock ticker symbol.
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