Microsoft has announced that it will no longer have “Do No Track” as the default setting for its future web browsers which also includes “Project Spartan”.
“We are updating our approach to DNT to eliminate any misunderstanding about whether our chosen implementation will comply with the W3C standard. Without this change, websites that receive a DNT signal from the new browsers could argue that it doesn’t reflect the users’ preference, and therefore, choose not to honor it.”
Microsoft said in a blog post.
The decision comes more than two years after Microsoft first turned on Do Not Track (by default) in Internet Explorer. It was praised by privacy groups but was heavily criticized by online advertising companies.Users will have to enable DNT themselves, Microsoft argues that the websites they visit may not honor the DNT request. The disabling of DNT will apply either when a user sets up a new PC, or when they upgrade from a previous version of Windows or Internet Explorer.