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posted by takyon on Tuesday August 04 2015, @06:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the please-don't-track-us dept.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), privacy company Disconnect and a coalition of Internet companies have announced a stronger "Do Not Track" (DNT) setting for Web browsing—a new policy standard that, coupled with privacy software, will better protect users from sites that try to secretly follow and record their Internet activity, and incentivize advertisers and data collection companies to respect a user's choice not to be tracked online.

The new DNT standard is not an ad- or tracker-blocker, but it works in tandem with these technologies.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by ikanreed on Tuesday August 04 2015, @06:33PM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 04 2015, @06:33PM (#218017) Journal

    Well, it's a bit out of our control, you know?

    We can shoot down third party tracking scripts pretty easily, but we have no idea what's baked into the servers and sites we're connecting to without laborious examination. Apathy can be the right response to impossibility.

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