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Someone is trying to convey that a plugin should report sites that are detected ignoring DNT to ne'er'do'wells to invite horrible things to happen to them. It

• hedora 5y ago
  Not a newbie. Let 'em use a MiB or so from my legimate browsing session with legitimate IP to perpetrate click fraud or auction fraud or whatever. That'll make it harder for fraud detection to work (the traffic is legitimate, organic traffic after all). If enough people do it, tracking firms that ignore DNT will have garbage datasets or worse. I've worked on systems for detecting this sort of fraud. Systematically injecting malicious traffic into legitimate click streams would defeat most anti-abuse measures that I've seen.
  • remram 5y ago
    You want to let people commit whatever fraud they want using your computer? Knowingly? How will you defend yourself in court? "I didn't do it, I just let somebody else use my machine, yes I knew they were up to no good that was the point, but to my defense I was shown an ad"?
    • hedora 5y ago
      The tracking servers are using my computer without authorization. (The "do not track" header specifically told them so.) So, their complaint is what, exactly? They tried to run unauthorized code on my machine, it noticed, and forwarded the unauthorized logic/connection/nonce/etc to a honeypot? This isn't an actual service I plan to build. If someone else does, and prevails in court, rest assured I'll be cheering them on.