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> Please have a deep look at the various documentation on how the Internet works Wow. I understand how the internet works, but thanks for the personal attack.
by wtetzner 6y ago
> Please have a deep look at the various documentation on how the Internet works
Wow. I understand how the internet works, but thanks for the personal attack.
> ... and realize that sending that header does absolutely nothing for users. It is, as it has always been, up to the receiving server to decide whether to even consider that data point or not.
Of course, and Google controls the receiving server in this case. If they honored the Do-Not-Track header, and if Chrome sent it, users would be better off. Of course browsers can't control what all servers will do. But by sending it, servers that do honor it will.
> This means that Firefox is not "trying" to do anything there, and it's actually doing an incredibly hypocritical thing as a browser vendor, making non-technical users believe that Firefox sending that header is somehow proof that Mozilla cares.
You seem to be saying that because not all services honor the header, it should never be sent. I would say that sending it is better than not sending it, because some services do honor it. And the fact that Google doesn't honor it is telling itself.
Firefox obviously does try, and DNT is not the only proof. They have put in a ton of work to make fingerprinting harder.