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Let's be real here - privacy by default is how it should be. It would behoove all of us to stop blaming the victims here, which are the people being gently squeezed for all the information possible. Having that header on by default was the sane and reasonable choice.

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On or off by default, the header is useless. Including a tracking blocker without any "acceptable tracking" list would be sane. It would have been even more sane if iframes and third-party resources were never allowed by browsers, but that ship has sailed.

>Including a tracking blocker without any "acceptable tracking" list would be sane.

Any reason this hasn't been up to the authors of the draft[0] to address that? Comments on a forum are likely to do nil.

[0] - https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mayer-do-not-track-00#page...

Blaming Microsoft is not blaming the victims.

It comes very close, the rhetoric wouldn't be much different if the majority of users turned the option on themselves (for whatever reason).

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