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Microsoft Adds 'Do Not Track' Option For IE9
devbox writes "Microsoft says it will offer a privacy setting in the next version of Internet Explorer that will make it easy for users to keep their browsing habits from being tracked by advertising networks and other third-party websites. 'By designing these sorts of enhancements with privacy in mind at the design phase, we're able to deliver a functionality that provides consumers additional levels of control over what they want to engage in and how they choose to do so,' Microsoft Chief Privacy Strategist Peter Cullen blogged. Previously, Mozilla stopped working on a similar feature for Firefox after pressure from advertisers and other OSS projects as it would hurt their revenue sources from advertisers."
This is just absurd. Who cares about privacy and also trusts Microsoft and uses IE? IE is blocked in all of my firewalls from ever accessing the Internet (and every once in a while that does catch and prevent something that is trying to "phone home"). Thanks for being so concerned about my security Microsoft, but I will just keep and block the current version that you forced into my operating system, for security I'll use other browsers. When someone insists on IE , I "just say no". My bank insisted that I use IE for on-line banking. My new bank didn't.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Sure, but that's far fetched from the ability that cookies and the likes of Google Analytics offer for marketers. It's stupid to say "this won't end it all" and think it's better to do nothing.
Only the uninformed think I'm stupid when I say these privacy features won't stop the tracking.
Please, educate yourself to the fact that 54 of the top 100 websites use Flash Cookies (in conjunction with HTTP Cookies). Also take note of the Evercookie and other such fingerprinting systems such as Panopticlick.
You don't have to add features to your web-browser in order to eliminate tracking. I use a VM and a commonly distributed VM image of an OS with a browser installed. Besides the IP address I look just like everyone else using the same VM image. My IP is transient, so I turn off my modem when I'm not using it.
It's foolish to call others stupid when you are ignorant of the topic at hand.