> Unfortunately, DNT is not a clear declaration of intent Often it is. Firefox, Brave and Safari explicitly advertise themselves as privacy-friendly browsers.

> Unfortunately, DNT is not a clear declaration of intent Often it is. Firefox, Brave and Safari explicitly advertise themselves as privacy-friendly browsers. That leaves non-savvy users who just use whatever defaults exists, but there is an even stronger argument to protect precisely those people - you can't consent to something you don't yet understand. Tracking can leak extremely sensitive information, just like microphone, screen sharing and webcam permissions could. Protecting the user is a sane default in all of these cases. The fact that personal data has commercial value is secondary, just like it would be with webcam access. Imo, the only meaningful difference between tracking and camera access is that fully-fledged tracking was an accidental side effect of third-party cookies, and before "we" understood the implications of that a trillion dollar industry was established. The reason we're apathetic to tracking is because it's abstract and novel, whereas snooping to your audio or video is easier to grok.