Re: tracking-ISSUE-144: User-granted Exceptions: Constraints on user agent behavior while granting and for future requests? [Tracking Preference Expression (DNT)]

• From: Rigo Wenning <rigo@w3.org>
• Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 18:14:51 +0200
• To: public-tracking@w3.org
• Message-ID: <1356495.szZLn3ePn4@hegel.sophia.w3.org>

On Wednesday 02 May 2012 21:32:58 Tracking Protection Working Group Issue 
Tracker wrote:
> QUESTION 2: Once a site-wide, explicit, or web-wide exception has been
> granted, do we mandate how this affects future behavior (e.g., sending
> DNT;0 or DNT;1)?

I suggest that upon a user decision, the UA should send the corresponding 
signal until the user changes the rule that set that preference. (New prompt 
with different decision, e.g. starting with DNT;1 and switching to DNT;0 
would hold until the users switches back to DNT;1)

Rigo

Received on Friday, 4 May 2012 16:15:16 UTC