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Re: Do Not Track Registry Likely to Include Exemptions

gr — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:18:52 -0000

"I think that asking the government to hold a master list of IPs and consumer names is a bad idea, or at least one that won’t do much to really protect consumers."

The Do-Not-Track list is unfortunately named, as people are led to believe what you just did: that it tracks consumers. It works more like an offender database: it tracks the advertisers, and then the consumer can just download the list and make the choice to protect themselves. So it is quite what you want to be: an easy way for industry to allow consumers to opt-out.

I blogged about this when the list was first introduced:

http://infoadvocate.org/blog/2007/11/04/do-not-...

On your cookie idea, if we create a special kind of cookie that anti-spyware doesn't delete, then malware and trackers will start using it.

Re: Facebook Profile May Provide Clues to Rogue Trader

gr — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:36:52 -0000

"Do you think it’s a good idea to use social network profiles to predict future behavior?"

Isn't that similar to the business model of social networks: profiling and predicting your behavior for targeting ads?

Re: 2008/06/06/firefox-now-officially-hates-me/

gr — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:09:25 -0000

I found that one of the filtersets I was using on AdBlock started blocking css. Got rid of that and now things are better.