Re: [projectvrm] Apple dumps Do Not Track from Safari

[Doc Searls < >]

In other words, it's worth more to bad guys as one fingerprint point among 
many others (mostly in http header fields) than it is to a person as an 
expression of intent.  

Is there a list of other fingerprint points are there, besides those in 
headers?

Doc

> On Feb 12, 2019, at 5:01 PM, Dan Lyke 
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> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 1:45 PM Doc Searls 
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>> Since I didn't know about it until I got the email, and this room knows
>> more than I do alone, I'd like to gather responses here before I
>> respond to the reporter (or report on it myself).
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> The release notes say "Removed support for the expired Do Not Track
> standard to prevent potential use as a fingerprinting variable." I
> think that says pretty much everything you need to know about trying
> to do any sort of solution that advertisers voluntarily comply with.
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> Dan