Reply to post: Re: Do not eat

W3C's failed Do Not Track crusade tumbles to ad-blockers' Vietnam

Anonymous Coward
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Re: Do not eat

>Did you read the article? The benefit to advertisers is that users won't disappear behind their own privacy tools.

I read it. If websites obey the DNT then the effect for advertisers is identical to the user deploying privacy tools. If a tracking company obeys it then all their tracking data disappears, followed shortly afterwards by their business. If they don't obey DNT then their tracking business stays alive for several more years, and maybe forever.

The discussion about ad blockers seems a bit irrelevant because DNT wouldn't turn off adverts.

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