someone else pointed this out - if they do this during the initial install/setup of the browser (first time it's run, for example), having explanatory language and an option for DNT that defaults to something is 'good enough'.
However... this possibly is too broad. "DNT" may not be something you want to do for all sites/tracking-entities, and the 'experience' of the web as a whole (untargeted ads vs targeted ads) may end up being degraded for IE10 users, who may switch to something else and be less annoyed.
ALL of this would be wholly unnecessary if 'cookies' hadn't been (and continued to be) treated as some sort of backroom black-magic that is consistently hidden from users at every turn. A little extra chrome in the browser that displays cookies being set/transmitted, along with an ability to delete/block them - directly from the browser, without having to wade through 'advanced/privacy' menus - would go a long way to giving people easy control and insight in to what's really going on.
Paranoid privacy nuts wouldn't trust it anyway, and would keep using hand-compiled lynx or amaya, but the rest of us would be able to quickly see what's going on and prevent things we weren't sure of.
However... this possibly is too broad. "DNT" may not be something you want to do for all sites/tracking-entities, and the 'experience' of the web as a whole (untargeted ads vs targeted ads) may end up being degraded for IE10 users, who may switch to something else and be less annoyed.
ALL of this would be wholly unnecessary if 'cookies' hadn't been (and continued to be) treated as some sort of backroom black-magic that is consistently hidden from users at every turn. A little extra chrome in the browser that displays cookies being set/transmitted, along with an ability to delete/block them - directly from the browser, without having to wade through 'advanced/privacy' menus - would go a long way to giving people easy control and insight in to what's really going on.
Paranoid privacy nuts wouldn't trust it anyway, and would keep using hand-compiled lynx or amaya, but the rest of us would be able to quickly see what's going on and prevent things we weren't sure of.