Mozilla, Google, and the 'do not track' button

[jes]

Mozilla, Google, and the 'do not track' button

Mozilla and Google on Monday took steps toward giving people more online privacy but each said hurdles remain to creating simple "Do Not Track" buttons for Web browsing software.

 

[Creag]

So is this much different to the privacy browsing options?

 

[noswal]

Instead of targeted advertising you will get any and all adverts.

 

[Gatecrasher]

So a billion web site owners are going to be bothered writing code to check the request headers for a "do not track" message? I don't think so.

 

[Creag]

So a billion web site owners are going to be bothered writing code to check the request headers for a "do not track" message? I don't think so.

lol

 

[murraybiscuit]

i used t.o.r. portable firefox and pidgin bundle for the first time last night.
is it any good? anybody here use it?

 

[noswal]

Just got this off security.now podcast... as a start helps to block some advertising

http://www.aboutads.info/choices/

 

[I O U]

This is over a year old, but I think still worth reading & incorporating.

http://safeandsavvy.f-secure.com/2010/08/16/get-google-out-of-your-life/