Well put. Mr. Fielding really screwed this one up. Just exactly decided that the default behavior on the web should be privacy invasion (sorry, obviously I meant to say "personalization")?
If Apache truly does not tolerate abuse of standards, how about not tolerating the ORIGINAL abuse of standards--the use of cookies and other state maintaining mechanisms to serve targeted third party ads in the first place. Those standards were never meant for that purpose. They were abused by slimy ad agencies, but no
I think that Microsoft has turned that around. By setting the flag to not track, they then bully the OTHER ad agencies.
Remember, Microsoft is ALSO an ad agency. They get to embed Bing right ino the browser as the default. It doesn't matter if they follow DNT flag or not, they have a huge captured market just from people that don't do anything. Just like Apple, they are working to build ads into the "metro" platform as well... That's all "outside" the Do Not Track debate because the DNT flag only effects "browsers".
We care about ad networks? (Score:5, Funny)
This hasn't gone down well with ad networks
To quote Firefly: "Do we care? Is this something we are caring about?"
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Well put. Mr. Fielding really screwed this one up. Just exactly decided that the default behavior on the web should be privacy invasion (sorry, obviously I meant to say "personalization")?
If Apache truly does not tolerate abuse of standards, how about not tolerating the ORIGINAL abuse of standards--the use of cookies and other state maintaining mechanisms to serve targeted third party ads in the first place. Those standards were never meant for that purpose. They were abused by slimy ad agencies, but no
Re:We care about ad networks? (Score:3)
I think that Microsoft has turned that around. By setting the flag to not track, they then bully the OTHER ad agencies.
Remember, Microsoft is ALSO an ad agency. They get to embed Bing right ino the browser as the default. It doesn't matter if they follow DNT flag or not, they have a huge captured market just from people that don't do anything. Just like Apple, they are working to build ads into the "metro" platform as well... That's all "outside" the Do Not Track debate because the DNT flag only effects "browsers".
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But then Google also has Android as a platform for its ad services.