IE9 monitors Firefox 4 candidates of "do not track-Computerworld

ComputerWorld-Microsoft yesterday followed the lead of Mozilla by adding support for IE9 for the same technology "What is the track", uses the Firefox 4.

Feature, dubbed "What does not track user preferences" by Microsoft, is another way to allow users to log off from the online monitoring of Web pages and advertising. Firefox 4 – and now IE9 – forward specific information with each page in the HTTP request that a web site that the user doesn't want to be tracked.

IE9 had different technology in place. Called "Monitoring protection" relies on published lists of selectively block third-party sites and content embedded in Web pages.

Microsoft has added to track user preferences-Mozilla says "What is the trail of the HTTP header"-the IE9 between February release candidate build of the browser and on Monday, the last edition.

Privacy experts applauded Microsoft's move.

"The Two technologies are complementary," said Justin Brookman, Director of consumer privacy at the Center for democracy and Technology (CDT). "There is no conflict between the two, and I like their work in tandem."

"The main props in the IE team," said Jonathan Mayer, a graduate student in computer science and law at Stanford University, in a message to Twitter Tuesday. Mayer is one of the two main researchers at Stanford that no trace of a technology that uses the information in the HTTP header generally log off all online tracking.

Microsoft still considers the monitoring of protection like IE9 is the main tool for online monitoring of privacy, butt has suggested that added support for HTTP headers to cover the bases. "We will continue to provide the feature goes beyond the minimum standards that consumers in control of their security and privacy," Dean Hachamovitch, Chief Executive of Microsoft, IE the technical efforts, he said on the blog site later on Monday.

Monitoring protection and HTTP header work very differently. The first uses the lists published by other organizations to actively monitor the content of the ad block. This, however, relies on the Web sites and advertisers to track users to change the code on their end to respond to the request to the do not track.

The decision by Microsoft to add support for HTTP header didn't come as a surprise, the Brookman said, who pointed out to the Redmond, Washington, D.c. developer inserted the function in the February draft W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), the primary standards body on the Web.

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