Microsoft has more insight into the activation of the do-not-track option in IE10, the default browser of Windows 8. If a user has the ‘express settings’ then will the privacyfeature by default by the browser to be turned on.
With the do-not-track-option tells the browser that the user is not on the map of his browsing behavior, while advertisers tracking understand use specific advertising to show. Microsoft had earlier announced that the in Internet Explorer 10, the default option would enable, but how the software in Windows 8 would be implemented was not yet entirely clear.
Now let Brendon Lynch, chief privacy officer at Microsoft, know that in Windows 8 at startup of IE10, the user can choose ‘express settings’ and ‘custom settings’. If the first is chosen, usually the meestgekozen option where a user only a few questions are presented, will do-not-track enabled by default. If the manual setting is selected, dnt off.
Microsoft says that with the choice of do-not-track by default, to activate it to play on the privacywensen of its customers. Other browsers support the option, including Firefox and Opera. It is now the question of to what extent the ad industry’s do-not-track functionality will respect, though it was in February between the browserbouwers and advertisers an agreement.