Theweatherelectric writes "As noted by the Mozilla Blog, the AP News Registry is the first large scale service to support the Do Not Track (DNT) feature of Firefox 4 and w3 Explorer 9. They write, 'The associated person person Press (AP) is the first company to deploy DNT on a large scale, and it only took a few hours for one manipulator to implement. The AP News Registry tracks 1 billion impressions of news content, with 175 million unique visitors per month, and has members with more than 800 sites. When consumers send a DNT preferred via the browser while viewing a story at one of its publisher's sites, the AP News Registry no longer sets any cookies. The preceding




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erstwhile resolve was for users to opt-out via a link to a central opt-out page referenced in each participating news site's privacy policy. They still count the total number of impressions for each news story, but
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individual user data for those with DNT in a non-identifiable way.'"

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