[powertower]

> Recently, Microsoft unilaterally decided to turn on DNT in Internet Explorer 10 by default, rather than at users’ direction.

> It basically means that the DNT signal from IE10 doesn’t express user intent.

Blatantly false. Not only are you presented with the option to turn off DNT on first use (that takes up the entire screen), but I'd imagine users would choose to have advertisers track them about 1-10% of the time if made to choose. So a default On setting does represent the consumer to a degree that you can't ignore.

[jrajav]

I also did a double-take on that first sentence you quoted. I'm pretty sure I read earlier that they will be prompting first-time users on what their preference will be, and that the "default" basically just means which position that switch will be in when the choice is presented. However, I did some quick fact-checking and I couldn't find anything to back that up; if you don't mind, where did you find that IE10 presents that option?

[ben0x539]

I had the same reaction. I found [1], which seems consistent with what I remembered.

[1]: http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2...

[wpietri]

The hilarious part is that they believe no DNT signal does express an intent to be tracked. Heads, they win. Tails, you lose.

[callahad]

That's incorrect. DNT has three states: True, False, and null (omitted). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_not_track_header

[wpietri]

True, but you've missed the point. They are interpreting null as "Track the fuck out of me."