Do Not Track Ineffective and Dangerous, Says Researcher

Seeteufel writes "Nadim Kobeissi, security researcher, describes the Do Not Track standard of the W3C as dangerous. 'In fact, Google's search engine, as well as Microsoft's (Bing), both ignore the Do Not Track header even though both companies helped implement this feature into their web browsers. Yahoo Search also ignored Do Not Track requests. Some websites will politely inform you, however, of the fact that your Do Not Track request has been ignored, and explain that this has been done in order to preserve their advertising revenue. But not all websites, by a long shot, do this.' The revelations come as Congress and European legislators consider to tighten privacy standards amid massive advertiser lobbying. 'Do not track' received strong support from the European Commission."

Comments

evil bit

[shentino]

Next up, being unarmed and begging pretty please shown not to prevent robberies.

This is just like the evil bit. Anything requiring cooperation from assholes is doomed to failure.

Re:Poisoning the well

[mister_playboy]

My filesystem is case-sensitive, you insensitive clod.