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The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Track
- LinuxBender 6y agoI keep a card on me that says I don't want to be mugged. But seriously, ditch the DNT header. It's a silly idea and was cart before the horse. Make a law with serious teeth if you want a header to be sometimes obeyed.
- ziddoap 6y ago>Reddit's privacy policy now states that "there is no accepted standard for how a website should respond to this signal, and we do not take any action in response to this signal" This has to be the most common (non)response to the DNT signal. In fact, one of the only uses I have seen for DNT is... Browser fingerprinting. Websites don't respond to it, and aren't required to. But you're still offering up an additional data-point that differentiates you from other similar configurations which do not have DNT enabled.
- nojvek 6y agoDNT was as shitty a design as the hypocritical oaths. It was asking the tracking companies to be “tethical”. Google Analytics and Facebook were never going to follow suit, why should the little guys?
- tinus_hn 6y agoOdd how apparently this is impossible but just about every site now asks for permission to set cookies