Re: tracking-ISSUE-273: particular mechanisms for tracking [TCS Last Call]

DNT is specifically designed to be agnostic to the particular mechanism used for tracking. Banning particular mechanisms as part of compliance seems to be orthogonal to the purpose of a general opt-out/opt-in signaling technology.

Proposal: no change.

—npd

> On Nov 5, 2015, at 10:40 PM, Tracking Protection Working Group Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org> wrote:
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> tracking-ISSUE-273: particular mechanisms for tracking [TCS Last Call]
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> http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/track/issues/273
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> Raised by: Lee Tien
> On product: TCS Last Call
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> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-tracking-comments/2015Oct/0009.html
>>   - allowing third parties to use tracking cookies, supercookies, fingerprints and other types of unique identifiers to record people's reading habits and browsing histories without meaningful consent.