{"id":101,"date":"2011-02-06T06:38:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T01:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itechgenie.com\/myblog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2011-02-06T06:38:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T01:08:33","slug":"internet-explorer-9-to-let-users-block-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itechgenie.com\/myblog\/2011\/02\/internet-explorer-9-to-let-users-block-tracking\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Explorer 9 to let Users Block &#8220;Tracking&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"width: 1px;height: 1px\">The Next version of Internet Explorer will let users turn on &#8220;tracking protection&#8221;, a new mechanism that will block specified users, Microsoft says.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"width: 1px;height: 1px\">The IE 9 announcement came as the U.S Federal Trade commision proposed that consumers be allowed to subscribe to a &#8220;do not track&#8221; system similar to &#8220;do not call&#8221; (in short DND) list that blocks telemarketers.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"width: 1px;height: 1px\">In IE 9, users can turn the feature on and then choose a list of sites to block. Anyone-Including individuals, companies, and consumers-protection groups-can make lists, and users can subscribe to as many as they please. List authors can update lists; the updates will automatically push out to subscribers, as IE 9 will check for updates once a week. The features will not block Flash cookies.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"width: 1px;height: 1px\">Some users may be surprised by the result, however: Sites that users block for tracking them will also be prohibited from displaying certain content. Websites will be able to detect when visitors are using the list; the sites will therefore know that some page elements may be blocked for the visitors.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"width: 1px;height: 1px\">The new tracking protection feature is available from the Internet Explorer 9 Release candidate.<\/div>\n<p>The Next version of Internet Explorer will let users turn on &#8220;tracking protection&#8221;, a new mechanism that will block specified users, Microsoft says.<\/p>\n<p>The IE 9 announcement came as the U.S Federal Trade\u00a0commission\u00a0proposed that consumers be allowed to subscribe to a &#8220;do not track&#8221; system similar to &#8220;do not call&#8221; (in short DND) list that blocks telemarketers.<\/p>\n<p>In IE 9, users can turn the feature on and then choose a list of sites to block. Anyone-Including individuals, companies, and consumers-protection groups-can make lists, and users can subscribe to as many as they please. List authors can update lists; the updates will automatically push out to subscribers, as IE 9 will check for updates once a week. The features will not block Flash cookies.<\/p>\n<p>Some users may be surprised by the result, however: Sites that users block for tracking them will also be prohibited from displaying certain content. Websites will be able to detect when visitors are using the list; the sites will therefore know that some page elements may be blocked for the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>The new tracking protection feature is available from the Internet Explorer 9 Release candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Next version of Internet Explorer will let users turn on &#8220;tracking protection&#8221;, a new mechanism that will block specified users, Microsoft says. The IE 9 announcement came as the U.S Federal Trade commision proposed that consumers be allowed to subscribe to a &#8220;do not track&#8221; system similar to &#8220;do not call&#8221; (in short DND) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itechgenie.com\/myblog\/2011\/02\/internet-explorer-9-to-let-users-block-tracking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Internet Explorer 9 to let Users Block &#8220;Tracking&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[39,83],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-how-to","tag-internet","tag-softwares"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2HHtz-1D","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itechgenie.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itechgenie.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itechgenie.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itechgenie.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itechgenie.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itechgenie.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itechgenie.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itechgenie.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itechgenie.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}