- From: Rigo Wenning <rigo@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 17:09:17 +0200
- To: public-tracking@w3.org, ifette@google.com
- Cc: Nicholas Doty <npdoty@w3.org>
Ian, if you ask for out of band messages, this mainly says we give up on technology and return to the legalese. As DNT is a communication mechanism, saying I have to communicate otherwise means, you've given up. I'm not there yet. I will try to reply in detail to your arguments as far as I have arguments beyond what Nick already said. On Monday 30 April 2012 11:07:33 Ian Fette wrote: > > * Companies that want to distinguish their limited list of third-parties > > Some companies may wish to put users at ease or distinguish their > > practices from competitors by requesting exceptions for an explicit list > > of third-party partners rather than an open-ended site-wide exception. > > (As suggested by Shane in DC.) > > Couldn't this be done in an out-of-band manner? I doubt you are just going > to call RequestException() when the user goes to the homepage. Probably > you message something to them explaining why you want the exception. You > could explain your limited use of third parties here. (You could also > make it available at a well-known URI). Calling RequestException() is your friend. It allows you to recover a client that would otherwise be lost. It allows you to overcome the pop-up nightmare as exemplified by the IAB Europe demo site. And there is no explanation to make as the thing is only about tracking. So if it asks, it asks about tracking. There aren't enough semantics for big explanations. We may note down some nice euphemisms in some UI How-to note so that it says e.g. "We need to know about your history to provide personalized services to you". Because if the UI would pop-up saying: <big finger in your direction>WE WANT TO TRACK YOU!</big finger in your direction> 99% of users will close their browser and shut down their computer. But I'm confident that we have a sufficient number of marketeers in the room to sweeten the message. Rigo
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