Microsoft are setting DNT on Windows 8 (and by extension their phones and tablets) so that competing advertising services like Google et al are shut out of their ecosystem. I bet whatever terms and conditions pop up when a Windows 8 starts for the first time, or via those Bing apps means that the DNT setting don't apply to Microsoft itself.
The DNT setting applies to everyone, and ironically it appears MS are about the only ones that abide by it. I having DNT by default seems to me to be the intelligent choice, The default should always err on the side of a users privacy. Why the fuck are people suddenly supporting the right to be tracked??? You should require explicit permissions from the person in order to track them.
An opt-in setting would mean the vast majority will not get the benefit. Basically this is the Ad companies saying we don't mind if a few people prevent us tracking them but if it becomes the norm we are going to ignore you. Well they can go fuck themselves, Sounds to me like time for government to step in and regulate them if they wish to ignore a persons right to privacy.
I having DNT by default seems to me to be the intelligent choice, The default should always err on the side of a users privacy. Why the fuck are people suddenly supporting the right to be tracked???
You sound really shocked. Maybe that should have been a clue that you were lacking some rudimentary understanding of the situation? You could have... perhaps, done a little bit of reading before hitting the Post button and whipping out a knee-jerk response, just maybe?
You should require explicit permissions from the person in order to track them.
Unfortunately, advertisers don't share this belief and we have neither the technical capability nor the legislative willpower to force them. DNT is an attempt to ask them nicely. It's a social approach, and it requires their cooperation to wor
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I having DNT by default seems to me to be the intelligent choice, The default should always err on the side of a users privacy. Why the fuck are people suddenly supporting the right to be tracked???
You sound really shocked. Maybe that should have been a clue that you were lacking some rudimentary understanding of the situation? You could have... perhaps, done a little bit of reading before hitting the Post button and whipping out a knee-jerk response, just maybe?
You should require explicit permissions from the person in order to track them.
Unfortunately, advertisers don't share this belief and we have neither the technical capability nor the legislative willpower to force them. DNT is an attempt to ask them nicely. It's a social approach, and it requires their cooperation to wor