On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]>
wrote:

> For example, not collecting usage data about certain sections of our
> population (e.g. IE10 users where DNT is set by default) means that we
> don't know if our software works for them.
>

Note that IE 10 does inform you about the option and that it provides a
means for toggling it:
https://skitch-img.s3.amazonaws.com/20120907-tu8m3msxk7sngf61188f8hxm7a.png

This is subtle, but still significant. It was cited by many participants in
the debate about whether or not to honor IE10's DNT in Apache:

https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/a381ff35fa4d50a5f7b9f64300dfd98859dee8d0
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53845
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