Yahoo will no longer honor your Do Not Track requests

[DelJo63]

FWIW, "Spybot S&D, used to edit the hosts file for you. They called it, "immunization", (I think), but never actually explained what the process was doing.

If you went into the "Hosts" file manually, you would see scads of bad addresses added by Spybot.

As I have a webserver on my laptop, I can see the effects of those entries made by Spybot (or created by myself). The access.log shows 404 Not Found for any domain inserted as 127.0.0.1 offensive_domain_name. So when my server is active, it discards all those requests and when it is not (the majority of the time), the requester gets back something far more devistating - - website not found.

So imo, Spybot is very effective (y)

 

[Guest]

The government will never pass a law that requires websites to honor DNT requests. After all, these websites serve as the personal-information-gathering arm of the NSA and other government agencies.