Re:Why Doesn't Google Comply with Do Not Track?
by TeMPOraL on Saturday December 08, 2018 @02:38AM
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It's a nice excuse. Every adtech firm can now say: "But we've been prepared to honor that! Look at us, we tried to play nice, we even wrote the code for it! But then that naughty Microsoft came and ruined it all!".
Like if adtech companies weren't literally the best players at figuring out which browser a visitor uses.
Why didn't your company disable it for just IE? It wasn't hard at the time to detect which browser people were using based on headers.
You could have checked to see which browsers turned it on by default and ignored them specifically. If IE went the route of trying to make IE's headers imitate Firefox's or something, fine, then disable it for IE and Firefox, but keep it on for Chrome.
But the idea that one browser misbehaving meant that suddenly no browsers could be trusted sounds to me like an excuse. Across the industry we build browser-specific behaviors for all kinds of things. What's so special about user tracking that nobody in the industry could do that?