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Re:"Do Not Track" HTTP header supported by IE, Opera, FF, Sa... by joejohnson on Sunday May 20, 2012 @06:54PM (#4000384)
Allowing people to opt out of tracking would decrease the load on Google's servers.
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Re:"Do Not Track" HTTP header supported by IE, Opera, FF, Sa... by jrochkind1 on Sunday May 20, 2012 @06:58PM (#4000399)
Well, sure, and if everybody installed effective ad blocking software so they never saw a google ad, that would decrease the load on google's servers too.
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Re:"Do Not Track" HTTP header supported by IE, Opera, FF, Sa... by jrockway on Sunday May 20, 2012 @07:22PM (#4000493)
You can already opt out of ad targeting: https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/preferences/?hl=en#o...
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