How's Mozilla Doing with Do Not Track? Not So Good

Re:How's Mozilla Doing with Do Not Track? Not So Good by nikcub on Sunday September 11, 2011 @09:33AM (#2983758)

since DNT is opt-in for ad networks it is about as useful as robots.txt. the good guys will honor it, but the bad guys - who users are really concerned about, will ignore it.

a better solution is to integrate tools to allow users to block third-party scripts, to fix bugs and improve cache handling headers that can be used to track users, and to not let any third-party scripts store any information on the client.

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Re:How's Mozilla Doing with Do Not Track? Not So Good by icebraining on Sunday September 11, 2011 @10:34AM (#2983843)

The thing is that as usual, there's no good or bad guys. The ones doing the tracking - which is in this case embedded in the websites - are not criminals who run botnets and crack servers, they're big, amoral companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter and some specialized firms.

These can be pressured (by public opinion, for example) into complying with DNT even if it's not their 'first instinct' to do so.

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Re:How's Mozilla Doing with Do Not Track? Not So Good by mnutt on Sunday September 11, 2011 @10:32AM (#2983840)

If you don't allow third-party scripts to store any information on the client, you break everyone's Google Analytics scripts. Then everyone will have to give out subdomains to analytics companies, ad networks, etc and we'll be right back where we started.

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