<story><title>EFF, AdBlock and Others Launch New “Do Not Track” Standard</title><url>https://threatpost.com/eff-adblock-and-others-launch-new-do-not-track-standard/114121</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>makecheck</author><text>Maybe there should be a standard to go the other way: a scheme to let web sites communicate monetary requests to browsers in an &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; protocol.&lt;p&gt;A lot of this tracking only seems to exist for advertising schemes, which only exist to monetize the page.  We are years past the point where we should have figured out how to make it easy to pay who you&amp;#x27;re looking at.&lt;p&gt;For instance, when you visit the page for Article X on news site Y, maybe Y&amp;#x27;s response includes a header that says it requests a donation, with some suggested value like &amp;quot;10 cents&amp;quot;.  And then, in some standard interface, the browser would show this request (e.g. a small icon in the corner with a price, including some given link on how to pay it).  The request would require certain things for security; e.g. use of HTTPS and being on the same domain as the majority of the content.&lt;p&gt;And since blatant copy&amp;#x2F;paste stealing and re-posting to blogs, etc. is a money-making scheme in itself, the browser might &amp;quot;protect&amp;quot; monetized pages in some way; e.g. disable the copy&amp;#x2F;paste and printing functions unless the donation interface is used to pay, to at least make it more difficult to outright rip off web sites.</text></comment>
<story><title>EFF, AdBlock and Others Launch New “Do Not Track” Standard</title><url>https://threatpost.com/eff-adblock-and-others-launch-new-do-not-track-standard/114121</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>As someone who used to run a site that made money from tracking people by showing them ads (and we tried really hard to make those ads unintrusive and relevant), I have mixed feelings on this.&lt;p&gt;On one hand I totally get why people don&amp;#x27;t want to be tracked (I don&amp;#x27;t).  On the other hand, for many of these sites, this is their only source of revenue.&lt;p&gt;Whenever I ask, &amp;quot;is it ok for those sites to block you if you are running adblock&amp;quot; usually people say &amp;quot;no, they need to find a different business model!&amp;quot;.  But my question back is always: until they do find a new business model, if they can survive by blocking people who use adblock, why shouldn&amp;#x27;t they?</text></comment>