What lessons can we learn from the total and utter failure of Do-Not-Track? And to those who supported it, now what? https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151113/04444032807/fcc-refuses-to-force-websites-to-adhere-to-do-not-track-thats-good-thing.shtml …
@jeremiahg @BrendanEich + it would've made more sense for the server to send the DNT header as a promise to abide by acceptable ads policy.
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@BRIAN_____@jeremiahg AAP is self-annihilating shake-down scheme, lol. No, useless signals and conflict-ridden list curators solve nothing. -
@BrendanEich@jeremiahg They actually improved people's privacy a little bit. The business model could be improved to align with our values. -
@BRIAN_____@jeremiahg AAP is a self-defeating shake-down. The curator has major principal/agent conflict. As list grows, little is blocked. -
@BRIAN_____@jeremiahg 1/To improve privacy a lot, block everything. Then problem becomes user cohort free-rides on others, hurts pubs. But -
@BRIAN_____@jeremiahg 2/If we're talking opt-in, the block-everything cohort wasn't gonna click on ads anyway. No loss to pubs. That leaves -
@BRIAN_____@jeremiahg 3/everyone who doesn't opt in, whose privacy and user experience still suck. AKA the web of late 2015 for most users. -
@BRIAN_____@jeremiahg Part of DNT game-plan at Moz, never realized, was to hope opt-in topped out around 20%, those who don't click ads. -
@BrendanEich@jeremiahg My point is, even though there was lots of doubt about DNT, it was so risk- & effort- free it become a "why not?" - 5 more replies
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