Re: User intended interactions [1st & 3rd Parties]

I think the point here  - and the big difference with example 11 -  is 
that the user knows that he'll go through "bit.ly" redirection and 
decides to click on the link. Bit.ly could legitimately be viewed as a 
first party providing a redirection service.
If we say that "bit.ly" is a third party, then we should say the same of 
all ad-networks who redirect users clicking on ads.

Also, every website could know from which site a visitor comes and where 
he goes when he clicks on an outbound link.

Vincent

>> 10. A user sees a tweet which says "Check out this awesome NYT article
>> bit.ly/1234". The user clicks the link, expecting to be redirected by
>> bitly to the New York Times. Twitter, bitly and the New York Times are
>> all first parties to this interaction.
> If you tell bit.ly you do not want to be tracked, and they install a
> userid cookie on your computer and record all the bit.ly links you
> click, where you clicked them and where they took you, then they are
> not tracking you across sites because they are a first party? That
> does not make sense to me.