[LINK] Do-Not-Track

[Steven Clark]

On 30/11/10 22:16, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
> Perhaps a *good* reason to use Mozilla in future. Even though, allegedly,
> Mozilla are not immune to ad-industry pressure. Do-Not-Track? Yes please.
> I have *never* visited a porn etc site, ever, but, tracking's just wrong.
>
> --
> Firefox-maker Mozilla mulls do-not-track tool 
>
> Julia Angwin and Spencer Ante From: The Wall Street Journal, Nov 30, 2010
> <http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/news/firefox-maker-mozilla-
> mulls-do-not-track-tool/story-e6frg90x-1225963351252>
>
>
> THE makers of the popular Firefox web browser are exploring ways to 
> create a do-not-track mechanism. 

I use the Ghostery plugin for Firefox to disable (all/selected)
trackers. It's amazing how many trackers some pages/sites have embedded
in their pages ... many have more than two - quite a few as many as ten! O.o

I do beta testing of Firefox and Thunderbird. It's not at all unusual
for features to come and go through the development cycle. Often when a
great feature is dropped from the release cycle, someone recreates in
via a plugin.

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Solicitor

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