- From: Mark Lizar <info@smartspecies.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 01:00:52 +0000
- To: Rigo Wenning <rigo@w3.org>
- Cc: "public-privacy@w3.org mailing list)" <public-privacy@w3.org>
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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