On Jan 20, 2012, at 6:14 PM, Nicholas Doty wrote: >>> So what, then, does the first party get? DNT:1 if any third party is getting DNT:1, else DNT:0 if all are getting DNT:0? An average of the DNT values :-) DNT:0.7 ??! >> >> The first party would get DNT 0 if an explicit exception exists. >> That does not tell the first party which, if any, of its >> subrequest partners might receive DNT 1 instead. It only alerts >> them to the potential. > > I think the first party's receiving DNT:1 can signal to them that other parties may be receiving DNT:1. And the first party's JavaScript can use APIs to determine which third parties are receiving that signal, if that level of detail matters to them. Also, I should note that Shane has suggested that we could use a different value (e.g. DNT:2) to express that a user is arriving with Do Not Track enabled, but some exceptions for third parties while browsing this domain. This question is tracked by ISSUE-111: http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/track/issues/111 —Nick
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