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That's basically what DNT was supposed to be—browsers said "do not track me" and "legitimate" trackers respected it. I agree that it's dumb. Ironically, DNT is
by snazz 6y ago
That's basically what DNT was supposed to be—browsers said "do not track me" and "legitimate" trackers respected it. I agree that it's dumb. Ironically, DNT is now just one more bit that makes fingerprinting your browser easier.
- dudus 6y agoDNT was supposed to be that until Microsft decided to make it on by default pretending it to be a big privacy move on their part. Because it was no longer a user choice advertisers decided it was no longer reasonable to honor it. So they just ignore it most of the time. And thus DNT became completely obsolete.
- saagarjha 6y ago> Because it was no longer a user choice advertisers decided it was no longer reasonable to honor it. More like it gave advertisers an excuse to get that tracking data they had been salivating over.
- renewiltord 6y agoTo be honest, users don't really care if you honour DNT. So it's best to just ignore that part of the spec.