Protecting Consumers’ Privacy Online

re: Protecting Consumers’ Privacy Online

Steve O'R — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:45:37 GMT

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re: Protecting Consumers’ Privacy Online

Caini — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:54:29 GMT

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re: Protecting Consumers’ Privacy Online

Harry — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:19:47 GMT

@hAl

Just add the line

127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com

to your HOSTS file an you're done!

Harry

re: Protecting Consumers’ Privacy Online

hAl — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:17:27 GMT

Blocking 1st party content based on exact urls would be inefficient.

It is much to easy to obfuscate and/or mix the tracking scripts/content with the normal content/script.

I would however want an efficient way for consumers to block website plugins from facebook, twitter, google+ and other social media on all pages trough my browser.

Pages load significantly slower these days because they are filled with "like" buttons and ather crap I do not want from a whole group of social media providers.

Please give me a social media blocker page that allows me to block all unwanted social media plugins on websites preferbly with selectable opt-in for the social media that I choose to connect myself.

re: Protecting Consumers’ Privacy Online

nike tn — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:27:16 GMT

At the CPDP 2012 conference in Brussels, Simon Davies and Alexander Hanff of Privacy International launched two new tracking protection lists designed to protect consumers from Web Analytics and Behavioural Tracking. These lists are available from www.privacyonline.org.uk. Check out the complete set of Tracking Protection Lists available from the IE Gallery (including the popular EasyPrivacy and Fanboy lists).

--Adrian Bateman, Program Manager, Internet Explorer

re: Protecting Consumers’ Privacy Online

Uhm Kettle — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:30:01 GMT

So why should we as users and developers trust Microsoft to implement this (or any security/privacy/anti-adware) policy?

None of us have forgotten that it was Microsoft that first introduced the .popup() method as a proprietary IE only method to create chrome-less advertizing popup windows that could take over the entire screen and even cover the underlying windows chrome and controls.

Internet Explorer pioneered the abilities for all shady advertisers to push garbage on unsuspecting users - so why is Microsoft trying to convince us that they are not a wolf in sheep's clothing?!

I think an apology for past practices would go a long way to convincing users that Microsoft's intentions are pure this time around.

re: Protecting Consumers’ Privacy Online

Adrian Bateman [MSFT] — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:58:02 GMT

@Viktor/A_Zune: there is lots of discussion about the definitions and responsibilities of first and third parties in the Tracking Protection working group (for example, look at the issues list: www.w3.org/.../issues). Most people are most concerned about the tracking that occurs across different sites that is enabled by third party content. This is the "hidden" tracking that average consumers have a hard time understanding. You can see more on the Tracking Protection Test Drive: ie.microsoft.com/.../TrackingProtection

re: Protecting Consumers’ Privacy Online

Viktor Krammer [Quero] — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:26:30 GMT

@A_Zune

>How would you distinguish tracking content from he normal website content.

Many websites use web bugs (1x1 pixel images such as example.com/track.gif?id=x&page=y&session=z...) to track the user behavior. By adding a URL-based rule (such as -d example.com/track.gif) it would be possible to specifically block that image or a tracking JavaScript. But TPL currently does NOT allow to block first-party content.

re: Protecting Consumers’ Privacy Online

A_Zune — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:09:34 GMT

@Victor

"The IE team should make first-party content also blockable."

How would you distinguish tracking content from he normal website content.

re: Protecting Consumers’ Privacy Online

Viktor Krammer [Quero] — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:24:36 GMT

@Fanboy

>Is there something in the spec preventing us blocking 1st Party items?

www.w3.org/.../SUBM-web-tracking-protection-20110224

It seems the spec only targets third-party content, but does NOT block first-party tracking scripts and tracking images (web bugs). This is a serious limitation in my opinion, that should be dropped. The IE team should make first-party content also blockable.