Mozilla Proposes 'Do Not Track' HTTP Header 244
MozTrack writes "The emergence of data mining by third party advertisers has caused a national debate from privacy experts, lawmakers and browser supporters. Mozilla's Firefox, a popular browser company, has proposed a new feature that will prevent people's personal information from getting mined and sold for advertising. The feature would allow users to set a browser preference that will broadcast their desire to opt-out of third party, advertising-based tracking. It would do this via a 'Do Not Track' HTTP header with every click or page view in Firefox."
WAT? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Right... (Score:3, Funny)
Confident, even!
RFC 3514 (Score:5, Funny)
Don't track me bro (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Pointless (Score:5, Funny)
I can hear the board meeting now.
"Well sir, our numbers indicate fourty-six million people out there are using the "do not track" header...we think that's a great base to start our 'Tired of Being Targeted?' ad campaign..."
Re:Why bother (Score:4, Funny)
What would be the point. It isn't enforceable and even if laws were passed, you can circumvent it by tracking from an offshore server.
Sure. As long as you don't want to do business in the US.
People still do business in the US?