Obviously one of the most talked about option of the new IE9 RC is about the new feature called Tracking Protection. This allows you to control what kind of tracking options you will accept and also as a by product can help you stop all those distracting Ads from showing up. Do note, this is turned off by default and you need to turn it on and also subscribe to lists that contains sites to be blocked.
As soon as I installed the RC, I set this up and then went ahead and subscribed to all the recommended lists. I figured more the lists, better my chance of catching an Ad site.
But according to this article (Privacy protection and IE9: who can you trust?), the lists can contain both allow and disallow rules and allow rules win when there is a contention. So basically, it now becomes important that you choose the right lists or you are going to pretty much be without any tracking protection. Based on the article, the current list rate as follows (as of Feb 12th list):
| Publisher | Block | Allow |
| EasyList | 2,189 | 47 |
| PrivacyChoice | 463 | 1 |
| Abine | 94 | 0 |
| TRUSTe | 0 | 3,958 |
So going anywhere near TRUSTe, basically negates tracking protection as of now.
And PrivacyChoice does not actually allow any site, it just has a sample whitelist entry and that seems to have been counted as a false positive.
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