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Microsoft Reaffirms Default Do-Not-Track For IE10, Windows 8 Express Setup
Billly Gates writes "Microsoft has confirmed that Internet Explorer 10 will have Do-Not-Track settings enabled by default. IE 10 comes with Windows 8, and will go release candidate for Windows 7 very soon, according to Anne Kohn in a comment in IE's blog. During Windows 8 setup, users who choose the 'Express' option will have DNT on by default, while using the 'Custom' option will give them the chance to change the setting, if they want. IE 10 already has a score of 319 in html5test.com, while MS is trying to position IE as a great browser again. Will this pressure other browsers such as Firefox and Opera to do the same?"
When Microsoft began talking about this in May, it touched off quite a debate at W3C about whether browsers should have DNT turned on by default or not.
> "And when everyone is Super... no one will be!" ---The Incredibles
glad i never watched the incredibles, it's amazing this kind of anti-communist bullshit is still being put in hollywood movies. the cold war is over assholes you can stop progandizing the kids, ok.
The analogy is a thought experiment, dumbass, not a claim that online tracking is the precise exact equivalent of installing cameras in your bathroom (but that should be fucking obvious, so I have to question your motives in purposely misinterpreting and misconstruing what I wrote).