Tuesday, 4 August 2015
The Do Not Track setting, which was proposed in 2009 and added to all major browsers over the last few years, sends a notification to websites that requests they disable advertising and activity tracking. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has now announced a Do Not Track standard in partnership with privacy extensions Disconnect and Adblock, blogging platform Medium, private search engine DuckDuckGo and analytics service Mixpanel. The new standard is a document that services are free to re-host on their own sites. It commits those supporting the Do Not Track feature to respecting users who opt-in and explains what data will be tracked by their…
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