Microsoft has taken a lot of heat from Internet advertising companies about its decision to enable "Do Not Track" as the default for its Internet Explorer 10 web browser in Windows 8 (although it gives users the option to disable it). Microsoft says it wants to give better privacy protection to the users of IE10. Now one of the Internet's biggest web properties says that it will ignore DNT in IE10.

In a post on Yahoo's Policy Blog, the company slammed Microsoft's decision, stating, "In our view, this degrades the experience for the majority of users and makes it hard to deliver on our value proposition to them. It basically means that the DNT signal from IE10 doesn’t express user intent."

+1, Microsoft does the world a favour for once and everyone else decides it's grossly unfair and vows to ignore user preference *sigh*.

No mention of ignoring Firefox's do not track option then?

+1, Microsoft does the world a favour for once and everyone else decides it's grossly unfair and vows to ignore user preference *sigh*.

This is the problem, though. We saw this with Microsoft’s attempts to harden Windows against viruses to the point where you had to really, really try to get them to run. It was an excellent idea, and would have made viruses far less of a problem (was this Vista? I can]t remember which version). The problem was that the anti-virus market leaders complained and griped, and Microsoft were forced to stop this. As well as killing viruses, Microsoft would have killed an entire market.

Same issue here and I suspect that there will be some back-tracking from the folk at Redmond.

The problem is that a lot of site bury widgets and buttons in their pages using iFrames - Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn all do it. And if you visit a site with an embedded Flickr gallery, you’ll likely be seeing similar happen too.