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Given a boolean flag, if 94% of users would select state X, then selecting X by default doesn't seem problematic at all. Microsoft (for once) did nothing wrong
by Filligree 3y ago
Given a boolean flag, if 94% of users would select state X, then selecting X by default doesn't seem problematic at all.
Microsoft (for once) did nothing wrong. The problem is the DNT flag was unenforceable, and that's something governments should have pushed on.
- lloeki 3y agoDNT is literally the nice bit, the symmetric of the evil bit. https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt But hey, clicking those "reject all" (when you can at all) does not guarantee a bad actor would comply with one's wishes either. GDPR has had every bit correct _technically_ (needs zero dialog if one doesn't track), but it could only work if these actors were honest. It turns out it reveals how bad they are. I suppose the only thing that could possibly work is legislation that would guarantee these bad actors to be sued to oblivion + burden of proof on them that they don't track.
- marcosdumay 3y ago> and that's something governments should have pushed on They did. Our current anti-tracking laws all come from pushing on that. The problem is that the DNT is way too simplistic. Browsers fail to inform the users abut it and keep track of sites independently, and the protocol fails to allow the site to request fine-grained authorizations and inform why they are needed. There's a sibling talking about P3P that has neither of those problems.
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoMozilla should put a red tracker count in the URL bar. That would make people aware of how they're being exploited.