- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:46:11 +0100
- To: Kevin Smith <kevsmith@adobe.com>
- Cc: "public-tracking@w3.org" <public-tracking@w3.org>
* Kevin Smith wrote: >Sorry - I tried to send this the day after our last call, but the >presentation exceeded the mailing list's 512k file limit. You can use the www-archive@w3.org mailing list for attachments up to 10 MB I believe and send a link to the message in the archive available via <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/>, for what it's worth. The way I understand it, "do not cross track" is a misnomer; as it is in your presentation, it really just means your actions on one site should not affect your experience on another site. You do mention "silo" but it seems that apart from that it does not affect tracking at all, and it is not very likely that an advertising network would silo data any better than not executing joins over certain tables during ad-selection. Here in Germany web sites are putting popular widgets behind shims where you have to first activate the widgets before you can use them, before they become active and could result in the widget operator tracking any- one; they do this even though the widget operators claim they do not use the "visit" data so obtained to adapt content or advertising (for now). That your behavior on one site should not affect your experience on some other site is something very tangible and easy to define and build con- sensus around, considering there are plenty of opt-out buttons for this already, but it would be disingenuous to call that tracking protection. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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