Twitter Opts-In “Do Not Track”

Twitter says that users who do not want to be tracked through their online behavior, will honor its users wishes and discontinue to do so, in contrast with Google and Facebook whose proprietary business models rely heavily on collecting their users information, reports Raw Story. Twitter officially announced on Thursday, that it will officially support “Do Not Track,” a standardized privacy initiative that has been heavily promoted by the US Federal Trade Commission, online privacy advocates and Mozilla, the non-profit developer of the Firefox web browser.

Mozilla praised Twitter’s move in a blogpost and noted that adoption rates for Do Not Track have risen steadily, to 8.6% of desktop users and 19% of mobile users. The feature, which only works in the Firefox browser, for users which have chosen to enable it, blocks all tracking cookies. Cookies are small tags of data used by advertisers and website owners to track users across their sites and networks. While most uses of cookies aren’t malicious in nature, they do exemplify how little privacy users have when browsing the web, reported Nick Belton @ The New York Times.

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