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Will "Do Not Track" Kill the Free Internet?

Posted by samzenpus on Monday February 13, 2012 @06:08AM from the pay-to-play dept.

jfruh writes "Dan Tynan is a privacy blogger and longtime proponent of the use of browser plug-ins and other technologies that block advertisers from tracking your web browsing habits. He's also a professional tech writer who makes his living writing articles for free, ad-supported sites. But he doesn't feel those two facts are in conflict, and points out that users pay good money to ISPs for those 'free' sites."

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Re:Doesn't Block Ads by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-13 06:20 · Score: 5, Funny

No, it *tells* the company to please don't track me. Next i'm writing a plugin that tell's the IRS to please don't tax me.