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Everything about Do Not Track
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Do Not Track (DNT) is a deprecated non-standard HTTP header field designed to allow Internet users to opt out of tracking by websites, which includes the collection of data regarding a user's activity across multiple distinct contexts, and the retention, use, or sharing of data derived from that activity outside the context in which it occurred. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Do Not TrackA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Alpha-Band Lateralization and Microsaccades Elicited by Exogenous Cues Do Not Track Attentional OrientingInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: A Tale of Two CitiesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Do microsaccades track shifting but not sustaining covert attention?Cited 20 times
- Go sideways: Jonathan MayerA closely related topic
- Go sideways: HTML audioA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Do microsaccades track shifting but not sustaining covert attention?
Do Not Track initiatives: regaining the lost user control
To Track or 'Do Not Track': Advancing Transparency and Individual Control in Online Behavioral Advertising
For your eyes only? A ‘Do Not Track’ proposal
Infants Do Not Reliably Track When Bilingual Speakers Switch Languages
New ASA ‘do-not-track’ regime
Security and privacy implications of 'do not track'
To Track or “Do Not Track”: Advancing Transparency and Individual Control in Online Behavioral Advertising
🆕 Influential since 2022
Alpha-Band Lateralization and Microsaccades Elicited by Exogenous Cues Do Not Track Attentional Orienting
Copper isotope ratios in serum do not track cancerous tumor evolution, but organ failure
Kleptoparasites of social spider colonies do not track hosts' subdivided population structure
Small Mammal Hypsodonty Ratios Do Not Track Precipitation Changes at Natural Trap Cave, Wyoming
📚 Books worth reading
A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens · 1800- 📕Tax administrationUnited States. General Accounting Office · 1986
Inside trackUnited States. Bureau of Land Management · 1987- 📕Gone but Not Forgotten - What to Do after I'm DeadKeep Track Keep Track Books · 2017
The millionaire real estate agentGary Keller, Dave Jenks · 2003
How Not to Be WrongJordan Ellenberg · 2014
Don't look for meMason Cross · 2017
The community college career trackThomas Snyder · 2012
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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