Unintended consequences of privacy protection in IE9

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I’m used to being picked up and linked to by other tech bloggers, but this is a first.

A longtime friend spotted my name in Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish today. The subject is my recent series of blog posts on the new Tracking Protection feature in IE9 and how it’s likely to affect online advertising.

Ironically, the link that was ultimately forwarded to me was shared by my friend using AddThis, an online service that is blocked by every single one of the Tracking Protection lists I looked at in this series!

If you’re considering using IE9, you owe it to yourself to read these two posts:

Part 1 – IE9 and Tracking Protection: Microsoft disrupts the online ad business

Part 2 – Privacy protection and IE9: who can you trust?

I’m eager to hear your comments as well.

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6 thoughts on “Unintended consequences of privacy protection in IE9”

    1. At this point I don’t recommend any one of them specifically. It’s easy to experiment with a single list or a combination. Definitely do NOT enable all of them at once. The TRUSTe list actually undoes much of what the other four do.

  3. Abine, PrivacyChoice, EasyList, EasyList Germany and EasyPrivacy here. And yes, that does the adblocking pretty well.

  4. Google Chrome is my solution to your issues with IE. And at those rare times when Chrome isn’t playing well with other web sites, then Firefox works nicely for my purposes. I prefer Chrome because it’s sleaker, has a smaller energy and space foot print and it’s way faster than any browser I’ve tried even with extensions and other customizations included. I’ve used Safari — Apple — which for me was Chrome 2003 even in its initial beta state among all the browsers since the era of Netscape.

    I am hard on a browser so I need a Chrome type that doesn’t baulk and sputter when asked to retain months of history and large caches. I find Chrome most compatible with the current mixture of S/W
    I use including firewall and free security services i.e. Panda Cloud, Clam AV and AVG AV.

  5. Google Chrome is my solution to your issues with IE. And at those rare times when Chrome isn’t playing well with other web sites, then Firefox works nicely for my purposes. I prefer Chrome because it’s sleaker, has a smaller energy and space foot print and it’s way faster than any browser I’ve tried even with extensions and other customizations included. I’ve used Safari — Apple — which for me was Chrome 2003 even in its initial beta state among all the browsers since the era of Netscape.

    I am hard on a browser so I need a Chrome type that doesn’t baulk and sputter when asked to retain months of history and large caches. I find Chrome most compatible with the current mixture of S/W I use including firewall and free security services i.e. Panda Cloud, Clam AV and AVG AV.

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