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Submitted by MozTrack on Monday January 24, 2011 @12:50PM

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 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."

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nice idea, but.. (Score:2)

by Johann Lau (1040920) writes:

..how does this "prevent" anything, unless it's respected by the advertisers (= fat chance haha)?

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nice idea, but.. (Score:2)