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Discussing defaults is only a distraction. Browsers are, in their own words, a "user agent" and their requests are the user's requests.

• Aerroon 3y ago
  If this were true, then wouldn't your browser sending out personal data constitute consent to have that data tracked? After all, the website asks you to give them the data and the browser complies.
  • layer8 3y ago
    The browser sending data doesn’t authorize the server to store it for tracking purposes.
  • troupo 3y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38081860 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38081860
• noirscape 3y ago
  To be fair, Chrome is basically doing everything it can to stop being the users agent and is instead Googles fun magic box you use to see what goes on on the internet (with the explicit long-term goal for Chrome to just be Googles freely downloadable OS overlaid onto your Windows/Mac/Linux, given how many system APIs Google keeps dumping into the browser). I don't blame people for forgetting that part sometimes, given how 90% of the population uses a browser that doesn't serve their interests.