Review Request: GUI configuration for the 'Do Not Track' feature...

[Thomas Lübking]

Am 15.04.2011, 21:00 Uhr, schrieb Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org>:

>> that's not a very wise default. if too many people will use it (*),
>> the data miners will just ignore the standard, based on the rightful
>> claim that most people didn't even explicitly say they don't want to
>> be tracked.
>
> Sorry, but this argumentation is ridiculous. Bad data miners will ignore
> the standard no matter what.

I wonder whether DNT makes any sense at all (or is just a giant fake) and  
it wouldn't be better to tell ppl. how to add sth like

127.0.0.1       www.google-analytics.com google-analytics.com
quantserve.com edge.quantserve.com flash.quantserve.com
pixel.quantserve.com secure.quantserve.com

to /etc/hosts (does anybody know who ships the _unam, __csv & __switchTo5x  
cookies?)

Otherwise i guess a cookie filter by cookie name would be faaar more  
powerful than DNT or the domain based cookie.


Cheers,
Thomas