Microsoft to introduce new anti-tracking feature in IE92010-12-08 09:47 by DanielaTags: Microsoft, IE9
Internet Explorer 9 is to include a new anti-tracking feature to help users foil the efforts of behavioral advertisers. The Tracking Protection List (TPL) will permit or block certain websites on the basis of preexisting lists. Users will still be able to visit them directly by clicking on a link or typing their address, but calls to them by other web pages will not be permitted. Inevitably, certain content on these pages won't be displayed, and the feature won't block cookies that are built in Flash. TPL builds upon the company's existing InPrivate Filtering, but while this relies on frequency heuristics to build its 'no go' lists and is thus occasionally unpredictable, the new TPSs will be curated and so - hopefully - more reliable. Microsoft won't generate the lists itself, but will instead look to third party organizations such as privacy groups or end users themselves. The lists will be an opt-in feature, and will receive regular automatic updates. Read more -here-
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