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"Do Not Track" removed from Firefox after 13 years
- jqpabc123 2y agoAfter 13 years, Mozilla gives up on one toothless gesture but continues to pay lip service to privacy without actually delivering it. If you want real privacy by default, use Brave or LibreWolf. Doing so will do yourself and the larger internet a favor by helping eradicate through attrition this ineffective stupidity known as "personalized" advertising. Advertising can still exist and be cheaper and actually *more* effective without "personalization" and the privacy invasion that it feeds on. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42385591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42385591
- OptionOfT 2y agoI vividly remember reading the code controversy around Internet Explorer 10 defaulting to have Do Not Track to be On, and the author of the Do Not Track standard submitted a patch to Apache [0] which ignored DNT when the user agent was Internet Explorer 10. Full story: [1]. [0]: https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/a381ff35fa4d50a5f7b9f64300dfd98859dee8d0#diff-74d4a72635e7dc9d5cd255f0bfc87300b92a6b1fd1bb373f5db4c5a42d12078bR416 https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/a381ff35fa4d50a5f7b9f... [1]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/apache-webserver-updated-to-ignore-do-not-track-settings-in-ie-10/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/apach...