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Yahoo Will Ignore IE 10's "Do Not Track"

Posted by timothy on from the tsa-logic dept.

dsinc writes "And so it begins... Yahoo has made it official: it won't honor the Do Not Track request issued by Internet Explorer 10. Their justification? '[T]he DNT signal from IE10 doesn't express user intent" and "DNT can be easily abused.'" Wonder what percentage of users would rather be tracked by default.

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  1. Re:Shocking by Grishnakh · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's even more shocking is that there's people still using Yahoo.

  2. Yahoo Leads the Way by ohnocitizen · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yahoo leads the way forward, whether it is in their innovative email platform with intuitive ui (ads), their reporting (entertainming/advertising) with an insightful comments from the community (tea partying racists), or their home page that I haven't visited but I hear has relevant content (ads) - Yahoo is the future. We can't expect anything less than a rejection of IE's fascist desire to make advertising less lucrative. After all, users want nothing more than for the advertising they see to be as intrusive and lucrative for companies as possible.

  3. Re:Shocking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I don't know about you, but I'd eat Marissa Mayer's shit. Uhh, for the bacteria, I mean!

  4. Makes it easy by Joe+U · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now I know to do full ad and cookie blocking for yahoo sites.

    Thanks Yahoo, you made my decision easier.

  5. Re:And users will continue by zill · · Score: 3, Funny

    AOL is still around, somehow, though I have no fucking clue how.

    Lies! I haven't received any free coasters from them for years now.

  6. Re:Arbitrary and capricious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    We need a law against idiots pouring good tea into our harbors.