@societyofslots 247490 wrote:
And this is from Microsoft who are deliberatly attempting to crush the small time affiliate by introducing a cookie blocking feature which is turned on automatically in I.E 10.. meaning most people will not know it’s turned on and so no-one will get comissions from anything.. Yeah nice microsoft.. dunno about scroogled.. But I would definitly say were all going to be bingoed
its actually a do not track (dnt) flag bit sent as part of the header. It’s either a binary 1 or 0 or null never changed.
so the program or website would have to specifically read the flag bit from the header stream and then decide based on the state of the flag whether or not to write the cookie.
In other words, just checking the box in IE won’t stop the cookie from being written as a feature of the browser, it merely indicates the flag status.
Many shopping carts use cookies to keep track of purchases, carts would be rendered useless overnight if the browser blocked the cookie data from being written based on the dnt setting.