Do Not Track articles

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  Mozilla delays blocking advertisers' cookies in Firefox

  By Adi Robertson on May 17, 2013 05:38 pm + 18 comments

  After announcing that it would soon start blocking cookies from third-party advertisers by default Continue reading…

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  Ex-Google ad engineer fights back against advertisers with anti-tracking software

  By Casey Newton on April 16, 2013 08:29 pm + 42 comments

  Not long ago, Brian Kennish helped to write the software that serves advertisements around the Web. Continue reading…

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  Do Not Track: privacy activists face off with the online ad industry

  By Jeff Blagdon on March 1, 2013 10:17 am

  In response to privacy concerns about pervasive online tracking by advertisers and others, Congress Continue reading…

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  Do Not Track bill reintroduced: 'They have dragged their feet long enough,' says senator

  By Jeff Blagdon on February 28, 2013 08:56 pm + 24 comments

  Do Not Track is back in the spotlight today as senators Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Richard Continue reading…

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  As online advertising grows, ad buyers pay for the consumer, not the outlet

  By Adi Robertson on November 16, 2012 04:32 pm + 7 comments

  As advertising has moved online, the way companies buy space for it has also changed. The New York Continue reading…

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  Chrome updated with Do Not Track protocol support, but leaves it turned off by default

  By Nathan Ingraham on November 6, 2012 04:20 pm + 86 comments

  Google just released the latest stable version of Chrome, which finally includes support for the Continue reading…

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  Yahoo 'will not recognize' Internet Explorer 10's default Do Not Track setting

  By Dante D'Orazio on October 26, 2012 05:39 pm + 122 comments

  Microsoft was warned that its decision to enable Do Not Track (DNT) by default in Windows 8's Continue reading…

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  Do Not Track: an uncertain future for the web's most ambitious privacy initiative

  By Jeff Blagdon on October 12, 2012 12:00 pm + 101 comments

  Following months of relative quiet on the subject of Do Not Track — an HTTP header that tells Continue reading…

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  Internet Explorer 10's Do Not Track default: flouting web standards in the name of privacy

  By Jeff Blagdon on September 11, 2012 03:05 am

  Amid the coverage of the Windows 8 Release Preview, Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer Continue reading…

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  Microsoft's default Do Not Track in IE10 gets shot down by Apache co-founder

  By Jeff Blagdon on September 11, 2012 01:10 am + 263 comments

  Microsoft has been warned that its decision to enable Do Not Track (DNT) by default in Internet Continue reading…