> the original mission of DNT, which was to request that sites not harvest a user’s data for targeted advertising It was a lot more amorphous than that. Some o

> the original mission of DNT, which was to request that sites not harvest a user’s data for targeted advertising It was a lot more amorphous than that. Some of the people behind DNT did have that particular meaning in mind, but others had different sets of things they wanted to prevent. There was enough disagreement on this point that they didn't manage to get consensus on anything more than "this specification does not define requirements on what a recipient needs to do to comply with a user's expressed tracking preference" -- https://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/ https://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/