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Standardization was attempted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track the tl;dr for that story is that it wasn't
by shadowgovt 4y ago
Standardization was attempted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
the tl;dr for that story is that it wasn't mandated to be honored, the industry didn't voluntarily adopt it widely, and when IE 10 tried to turn it on by default and the standard's lead supporter responded by submitting a patch to Apache web server to ignore the DNT signal coming from IE 10 because "does not protect anyone's privacy unless the recipients believe it was set by a real human being, with a real preference for privacy over personalization," that situation pretty much killed it in the crib.
The problem is technologically simple to solve; all the challenges are social and legal.
- Dalewyn 4y agoIt's kind of hilarious that of all the datapoints websites will gorge upon, DNT is the one thing they all toss out.
- m463 4y agoI believe DNT was used for better browser fingerprinting.
- cphoover 4y agoI wonder if a browser plugin that utilizes AI would work as a sidestep to a standardized cookie dialog. Granted someone would have to build such a tool and standardization seems inevitable at some point. Shouldn't be too difficult to build something like that.
- weberer 4y agoThere's a browser plugin called uMatrix that lets you block cookies and javascript on a per-site basis. I just have it blocking all cookies by default unless its a site I need to log in to.