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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. Shocking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    See now, the trouble here is that all of these privacy settings rely on corporate "good will", when there is no such thing.

    Really, the only way to ensure your privacy is extreme paranoia. Sorry.

    1. Re:Shocking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      No, not at all. The real shock is anyone thinking that Microsoft isn't the one to blame here.

      They didn't follow the standard, again, and so they knew the switch in IE would be ignored.

    2. Re:Shocking by rtfa-troll · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Verizon must operate in a non civilised world then.

      Correct.

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    3. Re:Shocking by You're+All+Wrong · · Score: 5, Insightful

      > The WC3 is being influenced by shills. I'd put money on there being some Yahoo! input on the W3C committee.

      Oh Jesus, it's worse than I thought. Head over to
      http://www.w3.org/2012/dnt-ws/

      Right on the front page - a hiuge great banner:
      """
      Workshop Sponsor

      sponsored by Yahoo!

      Contact W3C if you are interested in Sponsorship
      """

      Corrupt as fuck.

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      Your head of state is a corrupt weasel, I hope you're happy.