EFF, Other Privacy-Focused Groups Announce New 'Do Not Track' Standard

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EFF, DuckDuckGo, Adblock, Disconnect and other companies announced the new Do Not Track standard for the Web, which aims to give users more control over how their data is shared with the websites they visit and embedded third-parties.

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[Unolocogringo]

I have it enabled in IE and Firefox.
Ad companies just ignore it and try to install cookies any way.
I use Ghostery FF and Blur for IE.
I never gave any of these advertising company's permission to install spyware on my computers.
Of course the NEW Windows 10 is as bad as Android, which keeps track of everything you do,where you did it , and how long you did it and reports all of the information back to Microsoft.
I could not find any way to disable it in the preview versions ,so I will not be downgrading to windows 10.

 

[Marcus52]

The stuff about Win 10 being more of a spying thing from Microsoft is largely BS. It's pretty much the same as it has always been, except for Cortana.

Cortana is designed to be an electronic "personal assistant". Of course it needs more personal information to give you a tailored response, no one should expect anything different. If this is a problem for you, simply don't use Cortana.

But anyone with any kind of smart phone is being silly to worry about Microsoft mining personal information.

 

[dstarr3]

Whether or not this causes blocked tracking, it's still a big step in the right direction.

 

[eriko]

The stuff about Win 10 being more of a spying thing from Microsoft is largely BS. It's pretty much the same as it has always been, except for Cortana.

Cortana is designed to be an electronic "personal assistant". Of course it needs more personal information to give you a tailored response, no one should expect anything different. If this is a problem for you, simply don't use Cortana.

But anyone with any kind of smart phone is being silly to worry about Microsoft mining personal information.

Hello there Sir.

As a network engineer, let me be the first to tell you that my logs indicacte that every keystroke you make in Windows is uploaded to Microsoft.

Every program you open causes yet more packets to be sent to MS, as they are encrypted, I can assume they contain the executables' attributes of the chosen program.

Furthermore, they take copies of all your contacts too - they are uploaded also.

I can see no acceptable reason for any of this behaviour, and thus I will not use it on my main machines.

There is of course other privacy concerns with Windows 10, just do a little searching for yourself, rather than making gross uninformed statements regarding a topic, for which you clearly have no knowledge of.

Peace out.

 

[wiyosaya]

This seems more like a feel-good standard rather than something with any meat in it. Supported by the EFF or not, unless it is forced on them, no internet scum will use it, and certainly being used on internet scum is what would make this in any way valuable.