- From: Paul Pace <myfirstnameispaul@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 11:22:55 -0700
- To: public-dntrack@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CAOiu+rEaHKGqH87GTc9=H_r8TZszs4=DGkqDQFGHU8W736ZRuA@mail.gmail.com>
I don't know if this is the correct place to post this suggestion, but as a very small website operator and consumer, I would like to request a third option in the Do Not Track standard. I have observed through options in Piwik and Firefox that the implementation of DNT seems too absolute. In the browser I can only select to never be tracked or to always be tracked, and in my analytics software I can only select to never track or to ignore tracking requests. As a consumer I actually like that owners of websites I frequent want to track me and make the site work better for me. Similarly, as a website operator I feel the site is my private property and those people who use my site would benefit from my tracking them and making the site work better based on this data. However, under the standard there is no way for me as a consumer to communicate to the websites I visit that I approve of their using my tracking data to improve the site, and the reverse is true for me as a website operator in that users cannot communicate to me that they approve my tracking of their usage of my website. If I understand the standard correctly, what I would like to see is a DNT-2 option to track locally. With this option selected the website operator would not be authorized to share the data for any reason other than to improve the site itself. Thanks! Paul
Received on Monday, 15 October 2012 07:56:31 UTC