On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:38:41 +0600, James Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And boy does it suggest this feature will be a marketing problem :( Darin Fisher blogged the Mozilla implementation[1] and received a stream of comments, many from people who clearly haven't thought about how easy tracking already is, to the effect that they will never use a browser with this feature etc. It's hardly a representative sample of people (since the more alarmed users are more likely to comment) but I can easily imagine grossly unfair headlines like "Firefox 3 allows advertisers to track you across the web", ignoring the fact that any browser that implements HTTP redirects supports the same feature in a much less transparent way.
This would eventually lead to Mozilla and other browsers providing a user-configurable option to ignore ping="", which in turn would make the authors prefer the traditional (redirect-based) tracking because it's not circumventable.
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