- From: Walter van Holst <walter.van.holst@xs4all.nl>
- Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:08:18 +0100
- To: <public-tracking@w3.org>
On 2012-11-08 20:54, Vinay Goel wrote: > I'd question whether the consumer is aware that its UGE is stored in > a > cookie. If the UGE was granted as 'bypass your Do Not Track > setting', I > would expect a consumer to think that this exception has the same > persistence as its DNT setting. Dear Vinay, I would concur that this would be a potentially unintended consequence in some cases. It still do not understand why it would be "unfair". And it is a situation which can be rectified easily if the server detects loss of a previously granted exception. Or better, by the UA through a model as I proposed earlier on for the cases in which the DNT is altered by third-party tools. If there is consensus in this group that UGEs should have the same persistence as the general DNT setting, then the only logical solution would seem to store them together in the UA preferences. And even then equality of their persistence cannot be guaranteerd. Short of server-side mirroring of all DNT settings, inlcuding UGEs, their persistence cannot be governed by the DNT spec. It probably won't surprise you that I am not overly keen on collecting and retaining even more user data as a result of the DNT standard than before, to say the least. Regards, Walter
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