While the controvercy
surrounding Do Not Track (DNT) in Internet Explorer, and its handling
by the Apache server is still fresh, there is some good news from
Google.
Google Chrome till now has not implemented the Do Not Track option
that all other browsers have implemented—even Internet Explorer—by now.
Google Chrome has held out for this long, but soon it too will be adding
the option.
In speaking with All Things Digital,
Google’s director of global communications Rob Shilkin stated, “We
undertook to honor an agreement on DNT that the industry reached with
the White House early this year. To that end we’re making this setting
visible in our Chromium developer channel, so that it will be available
in upcoming versions of Chrome by year’s end.”
The options is already available for Google Chrome canary channel
users, which means it is only a few Google Chrome versions away, as
canary graduates to dev, which graduates to beta, which is finally
released in the stable branch. This makes it likely that the feature
will be released in the the stable Google Chrome branch by the end of
the year as suggested by Google’s Rob Shilkin.
If you are interested in getting access to this feature right now, you can download a canary build of Google Chrome from here.
Just know that Google Chrome canary is a very refularly updated branch
of Google Chrome, and can be very unstable at times, you are probably
better of waiting till this feature makes it to the dev branch at least.
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