- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 23:54:10 -0700
- To: Tracking Protection Working Group WG <public-tracking@w3.org>
Speaking IMO, not as editor ... My preference is (b): DNT is about the user expressing that they do not want data collected at one party's site to be provided to another party's site or used to associate that user across different-branded sites. A user already has an option for anonymous browsing by enabling one of the various private browsing modes. If they enable both DNT and private browsing, then they receive the "no customizations" effect automatically, aside from those limited customizations based on IP address or specifically requested via the choice of URIs/form values. Hence, there is no real advantage to be gained from adding anonymous browsing limitations to DNT. In contrast, most users do like the kind of customizations provided by first party sites like Amazon.com. It is actually one of the central features of the Web products that I work on at Adobe, where it is referred to in general as customer experience management (CEM). If we disable such customer experience management every time that DNT is enabled, then we harm those users who only wanted protection from cross-party data sharing. I don't think that DNT should attempt to solve every potential privacy issue at once, especially for those issues that can be addressed by combining DNT with other browser features. ....Roy
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