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DNT was never going to work and the failure of the Do Not Call list should have made it obvious. No one ever thought people would willingly accept being tracked
by jasonkostempski 11y ago
DNT was never going to work and the failure of the Do Not Call list should have made it obvious. No one ever thought people would willingly accept being tracked in the first place. I'm sure everyone who ever worked on an ad network felt a little yucky with what they were doing at some point and got over it real quick or quit, leaving an industry full of people who already rationalized that what they were doing was OK. Seeing the DNT options in browsers bugs me almost as much as seeing those cookie warnings. Government is making this stuff even more annoying, just let the people figure it out.
Side note, I'd love to see ad blockers add something to block those cookie warnings. Since literally no one on either side wants them, I'm sure website authors would be willing to agree on a de facto standard css class or something that would make them real easy to hide. Maybe it should be opt-in in case someone tries to go after the ad blockers for interfering with the cookie law.
- cpeterso 11y agoPerhaps DNT can be repurposed to bypass those EU cookie warnings by sending `DNT: 0` (Do Not Not Track).