- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:44:48 -0700
- To: Tamir Israel <tisrael@cippic.ca>
- Cc: Peter Eckersley <peter.eckersley@gmail.com>, W3C DNT Working Group Mailing List <public-tracking@w3.org>
On Jul 12, 2012, at 12:56 PM, Tamir Israel wrote: > On 7/12/2012 3:12 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: >> Yes, and it has been rejected many times because the ID cookies are >> used by other features that won't be turned off by DNT. > > Not so. I have never interacted and have no relationship with third party server X. Regardless of Shane's first-party perspective, your browser sent an HTTP request to the third party server. That is interacting with it. > Why does it need to be able to identify me in any way? Some clients don't interact in a friendly way. It requires effort for a service to separate bad clients from good clients. Cookies are one of the main ways to reduce that effort (and not just in the obvious way of identifying a specific UA, which is easy to forge). ID cookies are not a significant privacy concern if data retention is constrained in the ways already outlined for frequency capping. ....Roy
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