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Post number 8375

tranquileye — Sun, 17 Jun 2001 05:37:38 -0800

Some good news about Internet Explorer 6? IE6, scheduled to be released in August, will be the first browser to support a new privacy standard called Platform Privacy Preferences, or P3P, which will allow surfers to automatically determine whether a Web site collects personally identifiable information and opt out of the data collection.

By: jcterminal

jcterminal — Sun, 17 Jun 2001 09:25:05 -0800

hell yeah! where are all the anti-IE fanboys now? huh? where? wrestling with all the spam in their mailboxes i bet. :P

By: revbrian

revbrian — Sun, 17 Jun 2001 09:30:20 -0800

I've been using the 6 beta for a couple months now. Other than it destroying my outlook so I have no subject lines with plain-text messages (something they haven't bothered to fix yet!) I like it fine.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sun, 17 Jun 2001 09:31:18 -0800

Microsoft is going to protect our privacy? If you believe that, I gotta bridge to sell you, cheap...

By: owillis

owillis — Sun, 17 Jun 2001 09:37:43 -0800

Aw, c'mon Matt - give Microsoft a little props for doing something right (for a change)

By: NsJen

NsJen — Sun, 17 Jun 2001 09:46:05 -0800

Something to think about. Something to chuckle about.

By: riffola

riffola — Sun, 17 Jun 2001 10:58:46 -0800

All I know is that they expect sites to shell out money to get a P3P format xml privacy file. IE 6 Privacy FAQ w3c.org P3P Using P3P on your site

By: jragon

jragon — Sun, 17 Jun 2001 12:21:21 -0800

If Microsoft came out with a $500 plugin to verify that it was "MS compliant", I have a sinking feeling that people would actually pay it. If people didn't, they could simply make "non-believer" websites have a neon green flashing titlebar, which would in turn cause businesses to plunk down the cash to turn off the annoyance on their clients browsers. It sounds horrible, but it's not so different than what they're doing with this and other initiatives.

By: Foosnark

Foosnark — Sun, 17 Jun 2001 12:50:46 -0800

The main thing I've noticed about the "privacy" stuff in IE6 is that it likes to complain about standard everyday ad banners because those are "third parties." I'm also not too pleased about IE6 making it easier for the casual user to (cough) "borrow" images off your site with a single click.

By: thescoop

thescoop — Sun, 17 Jun 2001 14:34:03 -0800

When MS did a demo on IE6 and P3P for congressional staffers last month they mentioned that, P3P notwithstanding, MS could still share information with its affiliates and their advertisers, including MSN, MSNBC and other folks.

By: Mars Saxman

Mars Saxman — Sun, 17 Jun 2001 16:51:32 -0800

What's wrong with that, Foosnark? If you put it on a web server, it's a public resource. -Mars

By: hijinx

hijinx — Sun, 17 Jun 2001 16:58:36 -0800

Great! So even though edgecase.org has a copyright notice on the bottom, I can "borrow" that image wherever I want? Thanks, Microsoft! (Nothing personal against edgecase, Mars - just using an example.)

By: jcterminal

jcterminal — Sun, 17 Jun 2001 17:31:14 -0800

hey foosnark, i guess you've never right-clicked on an image?

By: swell

swell — Sun, 17 Jun 2001 19:55:22 -0800

ANAGRAM - MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER = FREEMEN, EXERT CLITORIS, PRONTO!

By: ktheory

ktheory — Sun, 17 Jun 2001 21:01:23 -0800

One too many E's in that anagram. But otherwise, that's pretty swell.

By: fooljay

fooljay — Sun, 17 Jun 2001 22:44:15 -0800

Hmmm, does anyone else smell something fishy? Naaaaaaah....