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Microsoft drew the ire of online advertisers -- and praise from many privacy advocates -- when in late May it announced that IE10 would have the "Do Not Track" (DNT) option switched on by default. Later, it backed away slightly, saying users could turn it off when they were first told of the feature as Windows went through its setup paces. Do Not Track is a browser feature that signals whether a user wants online advertisers and websites to track his or her movements. Four of the five major browsers -- Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari -- can send a DNT signal. Google has pledged that Chrome will support DNT by year's end. Do not track means do not track... except when it doesn't.
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Is this really all that much of a surprise? Who wouldn't guess that the ad industry would revolt against that? I, for one, hate that industry, and I curse it straight to the worst place anyone could go. I hate how a number of advatisors use flash ads to show a popup window and won't let you close it until you click on the ad.  Death to those people!
(Please excuse my spelling, Firefox's spell check is not all that helpful.)
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
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