Re: DNT is very timely

Great Article, thanks for sharing

> On 4 Nov 2015, at 21:04, Rigo Wenning <rigo@w3.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all, 
> 
> A very very interesting and timely study from Timothy Libert from Annenberg 
> School for Communication University of Pennsylvania:
> 
> https://timlibert.me/pdf/Libert-2015-Exposing_Hidden_Web_on__Million_Sites.pdf
> 
> I let the article talk: 
> ==
> The most striking finding of this study is that 78.07% of websites in the 
> Alexa top million initiate third-party HTTP requests to a Google-owned domain.
> ==
> 
> However, Google's privacy policy
> http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
> 
> does not even mention Do Not Track. 
> 
> This seems striking. While Google is part of the tracking protection group, 
> their last email is from 2013. 
> 
> It would be interesting to find out the current positioning of Google/Alphabet 
> with respect to this study and with respect to DNT. 
> 
> --Rigo

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