[dba-Tech] IE 10 might actually have it right

Salakhetdinov Shamil mcp2004 at mail.ru
Sat Oct 6 03:24:17 CDT 2012


Hi Arthur and All --

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All browsers should make DNT the default,
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Yes, I too would like to have DNT set by default in all the browsers.
But if just a few percent of browsers' users will have "tracking ON" would then I have the luxury of having free of charge GMail, Hotmai, mail.ru, ... SkyDrive, DropBox, .... accounts?

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... left-wing libertarian...
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Have you ever had opportunity to live and work, make business for a long time in communistic, socialistic, totalitarian/paternalistic feudal-capitalistic countries?
Left-wing libertarians refuse private property as the foundation of economic systems and insist on equitable distribution of resource rent - correct?

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The whole notion of consumer civilization sucks
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Maybe, do you have something else working better to propose to the masses?

Sorry for a bit off-topic.

Thank you.

-- Shamil


Fri, 5 Oct 2012 15:57:48 -0400 от Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>:
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>The opinion of the National Association of Advertisers is clearly based on
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the misguided notion that we are all "consumers" rather than people. That
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notion, to use the association's own words, is unacceptable. In addition to
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consuming stuff now and then (air most frequently, but also including
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nutrients, physical space and information... and way down the list,
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products such as soap, cleaning products and way further down the list, new
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clothing), I am also a producer, albeit occasional, of eBooks, physical
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books, screenplays, code examples in various languages, and the
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best vegetarian stew you'll ever encounter. And finally, when I'm neither
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consuming nor producing, then I'm playing with my cat or going for a walk.
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I refuse to be defined as a consumer by the National Association of
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Advertisers, or anyone else. It's time that these a-holes realized that my
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name and address and preferences are MY property, and not something to be
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mined in order to turn me into one atom in an aggregate that some marketing
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wonk has defined (in case they need help, let me assist: cranky post-60
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y.o, left-wing libertarian agnostic hetero white guy). There. You happy?
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I'm a market. Target me, you mofos!
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The whole notion of consumer civilization sucks, and maybe this is the
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battleground on which to fight it to its death. DNT forever! All browsers
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should make DNT the default, and the advertisers can go fork themselves.
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Arthur
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