[leejw00t354]

Maybe but I hope Google would take the higher moral ground and assume the user has consciously decided to enable it as they have no way to tell otherwise.

It would look a little bad if Google just straight up ignored the DNT header on IE10.

[ralfn]

This would singlehandedly kill 10-20% of Google's profits. Microsoft is playing a smart game, now that they have accepted that they cant beat Google in search/web-ads.

[mythz]

Right, because following Microsoft's defaults always leads to the high moral ground...

Please, Microsoft is doing this for the same reason its pouring billions in competing with Bing - so it can strangle their competitors revenue streams.