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DNT headers are a thing. They were proposed by Mozilla originally, and its use was suppose to be opt in (and of course so is any compliance by the site in quest

• gordaco 8y ago
  Changing the default value of DNT to "on", so that you needed to opt in if you wanted tracking, didn't make the header "useless" for site owners. But it did make it awfully inconvenient, because it underlined an awfully inconvenient truth: if a site makes money off tracking users, then the best interest of the site is at odds with the best interest of the users. Of course, many sites still wanted tracking, so they resorted to the scummy tactic of just ignoring the header. In other words: if most users do not want to get tracked, this should have been a signal to stop fucking tracking. The fact that it didn't doesn't reflect well on sites, to put it mildly. I totally agree with josteink: this is good news because it means that anti-tracking measures are starting to hurt.
• arghwhat 8y ago
  Rather, people decided that after tracking became opt-in (as it should be), that they suddenly didn't like the game rules anymore now it had turned against them, and chose to violate your privacy regardless of your choice. IE10, Safari and Firefox all did sensible things. The industry just doesn't want sensible things, it wants to violate everybody's privacy uninterrupted.