I commented in that bug that IE10 should be ignored as it does not signal
user intent:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track#Internet_Explorer_10_default_setting_controversy

You probably also saw my note on dev-webdev about DNT and GA and why we
haven't disabled it on www.mozilla.org. If you haven't, I will copy/paste
it below:

Google Analytics isn't respecting DNT for a variety of reasons, but it
doesn't technically mean that it can't. It would simply be a conditional
statement around the tag loading. We have this conversation about every 6
months since 2012. :-)

* GA does not collect PII. It's all aggregate trends as hit-level data
isn't very useful.
* We don't directly link the GA sessions/cookies to other 3rd party
services for additional tracking
* All cookies are 1st party Mozilla domain cookies.
* We don't do cross-domain GA tracking as each sub-domain has its own
unique tag and has a sub-domain filter attached to the GA profile.
* We use GA to understand the UX and find out what is working.
* We don't do GA re-targeting like other companies do as common practice.
* We have opt-ed out (at the account level) of Google or 3rd parties from
using the aggregate data to understand general trends.
* We have enabled IP anonymization at the tag level for a few websites.
Others Mozilla websites could do the same.
* We provide a user opt-out of GA and Optimizely for sites that use them in
our websites privacy policy.

Idealistically, we could say that Apache, caching proxies, or our 3rd party
CDN should not set server/router/network logs when DNT is enabled as that
could be considered by some as "tracking".

I have also some some research on DNT on www.mozilla.org and while the
percentage is small, there are some browsers that are enabled by default
from the factory, which would make them pretty much disappear from metrics
that are being used to understand the health of the Firefox product. Not
having a clear picture on metrics could negatively impact the health of
Firefox and ultimately lead to reduced impact on our mission. Oh wait, now
I am being idealistic. :-)

More "light" reading on the topic:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=858839

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697436

-cmore


On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Gavin Sharp <[email protected]> wrote:

> +cmore, gareth
>
> I think most of these suggestions are already implemented (see e.g.
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1129507).
>
> Gavin
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:48 AM, Alexis Métaireau <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here is a set of good practices in the usage of Google Analytics. I
> believe
> > we should implement these for the loop-client webapp, which is relying
> on GA
> > currently.
> >
> > — Alex
> >
> >
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > Subject:        [webdev] Blog Post: Privacy and Google Analytics
> > Date:   Mon, 23 Feb 2015 21:53:06 -0800
> > From:   Chris Van Wiemeersch <[email protected]>
> > To:     dev-webdev <[email protected]>
> >
> >
> >
> > I stumbled upon this blog post by fellow Mozillian, Guillaume Marty
> > (gmarty):
> >
> >     http://gu.illau.me/posts/privacy-and-google-analytics/
> >
> > A few months ago on the Marketplace team we discussed whether Google
> > Analytics should be disabled when Do Not Track is enabled. The consensus
> > was no - but with an asterisk.
> >
> > This blog post is a good read for those who want to use Google Analytics
> > without sacrificing user privacy (i.e., you!).
> >
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > cvan
> > _______________________________________________
> > dev-webdev mailing list
> > [email protected]
> > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webdev
> >
> >
> >
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>



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