IE9 Receiving Anti-Tracking Tool By Spring 2011

[exfileme]

An anti-tracking tool will be available in Internet Explorer 9 this Spring.

IE9 Receiving Anti-Tracking Tool By Spring 2011 : Read more

 

[cheepstuff]

It is interesting to see Microsoft develop an open source tool. Then again, this is not the first time they have done that, and probably not the last.

 

[fjjb]

(hackers)
-meanwhile we keep sniffing your data.

 

[milktea]

MS seems to be heading the right direction.

 

[jhansonxi]

[citation][nom]milktea[/nom]MS seems to be heading the right direction.[/citation]After exhausting all the alternatives.

 

[jsc]

Ought to be opt-out - protection on by default.

 

[sirfrummel]

So wait... what does this mean? Is a Tracking Protection List a list of the things that track, or a list of users who opt-in? Is the TPL basically like a blacklist for AdBlock then? What's the difference between the tracking thing and just running NoScript with Firefox?

 

[Griffolion]

Imagine your browsing history as dirty underwear and suddenly you lose all respect for those websites...

 

[gm0n3y]

Sounds like this could be a good move by M$. Maybe (though doubtfully) this will make me switch from Chrome. I'd like some more information about how this is going to work though.

 

[godnodog]

I want to have the option to block Google connections, can it be done? (I don´t know how!!!!)