Microsoft Reaffirms Default Do-Not-Track For IE10, Windows 8 Express Setup

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 7, 2012 @09:16PM from the advertisers-cringe dept.

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.

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Re:yay! by imagined.by · 2012-08-07 21:32 · Score: 5, Interesting

But in this case, it's horribly wrong.
This will effectively KILL the do-not-track project.
Re:boo! by Eirenarch · 2012-08-07 22:32 · Score: 5, Interesting

The article on Ars Technica states that the EU authorities stand behind DNT by default which if true means that Google can argue nothing (at least in Europe)