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    Microsoft plans on turning off Do Not Track in upcoming browsers

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by WhatsThePoint, Apr 7, 2015.

  1. WhatsThePoint

    WhatsThePoint Notebook Virtuoso

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    Microsoft announced that going forward, it will not turn on the “ Do Not Track” feature in the upcoming versions of Internet Explorer and Spartan by default.
     
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    I'm not sure it really matters. Websites were always free to ignore Do Not Track, and the vast majority did, because they either didn't know about it, didn't care about it (either out of laziness, apathy, or because they need the data/revenue), or simply did not have any code that tracked their users in the first place.
     
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    Pretty much and not only this, but it being turned on by default in IE meant that a lot more people would have it on. That in itself is not a bad thing, but a perverse effect might be that some site owners will just decide to ignore all DNT requests outright.

    On principle, I think MS should have left it on though.
     
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