Stanford, Mozilla, Opera Launch Web Privacy Initiative

An anonymous reader writes "Stanford Law School has kicked off a 'Cookie Clearinghouse' web privacy initiative that brings together researchers and browsers. The project aims to provide a centralized and trusted repository for whitelist and blacklist data on web tracking, much like StopBadware does for malware. Mozilla and Opera are collaborating on the initiative, and Mozilla plans to integrate it into Firefox's new default third-party cookie blocking. The leader of an advertising trade group has, of course, denounced the participating browsers as 'oligopolies.'"

Re:It's about the right to choose

[auric_dude]

EFF illustrate the scope of third party data sharing. How Dozens of Companies Know You're Reading About Those NSA Leaks https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/third-party-resources-nsa-leaks [eff.org]. Noscript helps but is a bit like shutting the stable after the horse has bolted, this 3rd party stuff should not be in your browser in the first place.

TIL: Adblocking in IE is actually BUILT-IN

[mha]

See http://superuser.com/questions/257792/how-can-i-block-ads-in-internet-explorer [superuser.com]

Not that I use IE, but I tried that immediately and it works great. No need to install any add-ons, it works right out of the box, you just have to subscribe to one of those lists (like in Adblock+). And the page with those lists is provided by Microsoft!

Tough ...

[gstoddart]

âoeThere are billions and billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs at stake in this supply chain,â

You know what Mr Rothenberg, we don't give a shit.

Because also at stake is our privacy, and our right to not have some douchebag advertising company know every detail of our lives.

I don't want doubleclick, quantserve, google analytics, scorecard research, and all of these other assholes to get a phone-home beacon on every page I visit -- which is why between my firewall and various things like NoScript/ScriptSafe, these sites are blocked.

I don't owe you marketing data, and I'm not interested in your product. Don't act like it's your right for me to provide you this data, because it isn't.

The advertising companies who do this are the oligopolies, Mozilla is just putting some more freedom in the hands of their consumers ... or maybe you don't like it when consumers exercise their right to be not interested in what you're selling and your just a corporate mouthpiece who is only interested in corporate freedom?

I don't have any more sympathy for advertisers than I do for telemarketers. They can both go eat shit and die.