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		pbreit on Oct 26, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yahoo to ignore IE10's "Do Not Track" Nope. For the past 10-20 years, browsing has worked as if there were not a DNT signal. So clearly "default off" is not "just as arbitrary". Yahoo is right.

tvladeck on Oct 27, 2012 [–]

My opinion is that _any_ setting that has not been chosen by the user is arbitrary. I understand your opinion, however.

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