The fight over the "do not track" flag continues.

In the latest version of Internet Explorer (version 10), Microsoft has made "do not track" the default setting. This makes tracking by websites an "opt in" rather than an "opt out" proposition. Privacy advocates have long favored this approach, but advertisers don't like it.

Yahoo feels so strongly about this that they say that they will ignore the Do Not Track (DNT) flag when coming from IE 10 browsers. The open source Apache web server is also going to come configured to ignore the IE 10 DNT flag.

So, even if you explicitly want Do Not Track, and would have gone in and manually enabled it, you will be tracked by Yahoo anyway.

Ironically, this means that if you actually want to not be tracked, you need to use a different browser and manually enable the setting.

I do appreciate the effort Microsoft, and shame on you Yahoo.