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Yahoo Will Ignore IE 10's "Do Not Track"
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.
proactively tagged and tracked by their ISP and cell phone carrier who sell their information to the highest bidder.
In the civilised world this is illegal and the mobile networks are legally required to provide proper privacy. In fact, employees occasionally go to jail for breaching telecom privacy rules. It does happen in some countries but that is an exception. There are plenty of us who would spend money to have that kind of privacy guarantee extended to internet connections.
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They followed it just fine. They allow the user to choose the common default configuration and CORRECTLY guessed that most commonly, people don't want to be tracked like an animal.
If the user would like to be tracked, they may choose that as well. It's not like allowing tracking requires a registry hack.
False - they followed the standard. Then somebody on the standards committee (Fielding, presumably) *changed* the standard.
Look at the date stamps on the released versions of the W3C standards - look at the minutes of the meetings of the committee. If you have more than half a brain you will notice that the change between the most recent version and the previous version of the standard - which *did not* have the default clause you seem to think has been there for ever - was not discussed in any meeting.
The WC3 is being influenced by shills. I'd put money on there being some Yahoo! input on the W3C committee.
Your head of state is a corrupt weasel, I hope you're happy.