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You know just poking around in Firefox, and I have "Tell Websites do not Track me." checked and yet, every where I go, the ad banners all know my weakness for Brown rice Green Tea, and my admiration for high priced crappers. As there's amazon offers for Gen Mai Cha and Kohler toilets.
It's useful to actually understand P3P and why it's such a useless technology before commenting on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P#Criticisms
That's all I'll say on the subject.
You missed the point, just because the door bell is broke, doesn't give Google the right to just come on in.
I don't know about you, but my privacy is worth more than a Like or a +1 icon on the page.
You missed the point, just because the door bell is broke, doesn't give Google the right to just come on in.
I don't know about you, but my privacy is worth more than a Like or a +1 icon on the page.
William E Baughb
Nah, the point you're missing is that P3P doesn't actually protect your privacy in any way.
Companies could lie and claim to honor whatever policy they put in there, and you'd never know it. It was a terrible idea and that's why IE is the only browser that supports it (and even Microsoft's own sites don't use it).
If you truly don't want third parties setting advertising cookies, disable third-party cookies.
Well I don't know who to blame more, Microsoft for having the clunky security settings, that either blocks things you don't want blocked, or leaves you wide open for every thing from everyone. Or Google's interpretation of what they think the User wants.
While I'm no fan of IE, I would expect their security settings to work as intended. But resolving most simple privacy settings, always results in a long technical discussion with the end user tying to get things resolved.
I don't participate in Google+ or Facebook, and if my privacy setting are being thwarted by any company, because they think I'm to stupid to set the browser settings, then I have a big problem with that.