Re: Article: Yahoo! Launches Global Support for Do Not Track (Yahoo! Policy Blog)

Shane,

An important step. Congratulations.  As I understand your post,  Yahoo! is announcing that you will support DNT when the header is sent from a browser.  Is that right?

Sone of the press coverage seems a little confused. Like this Washington Post piece saying that Yahoo! will implement a "Do Not Track tool":

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/yahoo-announces-do-not-track-tool/2012/03/29/gIQAuoQyiS_story.html

You saying that you'll honor DNT on all your properties, right?  Not that there will be a DNT "button" or mechanism on your sites, right?

Again, important step forward.  Congratulations.

John



On Mar 29, 2012, at 7:20 AM, Shane Wiley wrote:

> http://www.ypolicyblog.com/policyblog/2012/03/29/yahoo-launches-global-support-for-do-not-track/
>  
> Before you ask, Yahoo! is deeply committed to the W3C process – I’m not going anywhere J – but I could only comment on currently known DNT structures in today’s announcement. 
>  
> - Shane

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