{"id":6422,"date":"2012-08-28T20:14:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T19:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=6422"},"modified":"2012-08-28T20:14:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T19:14:59","slug":"ie10-and-do-not-track-ineffective-with-amazon-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/6422-ie10-and-do-not-track-ineffective-with-amazon-ads.html","title":{"rendered":"IE10 and Do Not Track: ineffective with Amazon ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I set up Windows 8 on my desktop PC, accepting the default Do Not Track setting. This is still set:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/image55.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/image_thumb53.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However I noticed Amazon ads served by Google\/DoubleClick on a third-party site that reflected my recent activity on Amazon. I clicked the Privacy link on the ad (which links to Amazon rather than Google) and found this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/image56.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/image_thumb54.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note that this is not an Amazon account setting. The wording makes it clear that it is a browser setting, which you have to make for every browser you use. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Because your selection above is managed through HTTP cookies, if you delete these cookies or use a different browser, you will have to make this same selection again.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Clearly it also defaults to \u201cpersonalisation\u201d despite IE 10 being set to request \u201cDo not track\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to Amazon for offering an opt-out; but no kudos for ignoring that I have already made a choice by sending a Do Not Track header.<\/p>\n<p>Note there is no legal requirement to respect the Do Not Track header.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set up Windows 8 on my desktop PC, accepting the default Do Not Track setting. This is still set: However I noticed Amazon ads served by Google\/DoubleClick on a third-party site that reflected my recent activity on Amazon. I clicked the Privacy link on the ad (which links to Amazon rather than Google) and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/6422-ie10-and-do-not-track-ineffective-with-amazon-ads.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IE10 and Do Not Track: ineffective with Amazon ads<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,36],"tags":[137,422],"class_list":["post-6422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-google","tag-amazon","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}