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Hiding Online Footprints
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11-30-2010, 10:33 PM
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Hiding Online Footprints
Makers of Firefox Browser Explore Do-Not-Track Tool After Scrapping Earlier Effort
By JULIA ANGWIN And SPENCER E. ANTE The makers of the popular Firefox Web browser are exploring ways to create a do-not-track mechanism that could offer Internet users a way to avoid being monitored online. The effort comes just months after Firefox's creator, Mozilla Corp., killed a powerful new tool to limit tracking under pressure from an ad-industry executive, The Wall Street Journal has learned. Mozilla says it didn't scrap the tool because of pressure, but rather out of concern it would force advertisers to use even sneakier techniques and could slow down the performance of some websites. ... The group will discuss a technical method that would allow Web browsers to broadcast a "do not track" message at a user's request. For such a tool to work, browser makers would need to build in such a feature and tracking companies would need to agree to not track users that use the tool. Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424...z16pbGUYBs Confirmed, Fox "news" makes you stupid The ones you are noticing are more terrified than anything else. They are lashing out because they are comfortable; and to acknowledge what is happening is a threat to that comfort. Ignore them, for they are not the voices that will rise in the coming days, months and years. They are not the voices of our collected humanity. They are the old voices of fear and impotence. - Anonymous |
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