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Sorry I’ve been incommunicado, but it’s been crazy times at AdMonsters. However, there was a big piece of news last week directly related to our little group \u2013 Microsoft IE10 was released and it’s got DNT set on from the get-go<\/a>. Most of the online advertising community was (understandably) pretty upset.<\/p>\n It’s a big big deal because (according to StatCounter) around 40% of US browsing is done on IE. That doesn’t mean tomorrow 40% of the Internet population will be untargetable (though that is a long-term worst-case scenario) as IE10 will take time to filter out.<\/p>\n We could debate motives of the move all day and night. I can see why Ryan Singel of Wired thinks it’s a shot at Google’s targeted advertising business. From what I understood from our meeting with Aleecia MacDonald, publishing and advertising operations within the same company must be kept separate \u2013 that is, Microsoft Advertising cannot use data collected by Microsoft sites. So there shouldn’t be a “first-party” advantage, as I’ve seen suggested by others \u2013 however, perhaps I’m in the wrong here… Was that the way you guys saw it?<\/p>\n Really, what we should discuss is –<\/p>\n I’d love to hear your thoughts. Also, I am trying to attend a private town hall meeting on DNT with the IAB and Aleecia; If I can go I’ll report my findings here. Is anyone else going to attend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi all, Sorry I’ve been incommunicado, but it’s been crazy times at AdMonsters. However, there was a big piece of news last week directly related to our little group \u2013 Microsoft IE10 was released and it’s got DNT set on … Continue reading \n