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Playing Around With Tracking Protection In IE9
Roberto123 writes "I have tried out the Tracking Protection feature in the coming Internet Explorer 9 browser from Microsoft. While the feature does effectively block ads from Web sites, I'm not yet convinced that giving the users the options to select content to 'Block' or 'Allow' will be that effective."
Nice, another copy job from M$. And the TFA (which I did read), really shows that the author never used AdBlock before. M$ actually didn't do anything bad now, don't tell that I troll against them. As a side note, if Microsoft implements AdBlock, and enables it for everyone, the the ad industry will find a ways to override it. (They don't bother yet, since usually only smart peoples use Firefox, and thus they are less likely to fall into their traps, and thus AdBlock even benefits them by saving their bandwidth). I have even seen few sites that detect firefox's AdBlock, and complain about it, like this one
Being cynical, I would say that the default list of "Trusted providers" = Microsoft partners and Google is out. Good thing nowadays we have some choice in browser selection. Microsoft can be its own ecosystem until it is a paramecium in some pond somewhere. Like a previous poster said: why use Microsoft IE9 nowadays when there is Chrome for Mac, Linux and Windows as well as Firefox for most other platforms out there? Cue Microsoft trolls: "This looks like a great thing from Microsoft, you know you don't have to use it". "I was a sceptic at first, but the more I look at this new feature, the most it seems it will help computing platforms everywhere" "No that is not true...this is an add on like an extension for Firefox"...