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Lately, I've come across websites that instead of a cookie banner display a banner that states they recognize and honor my wish to not be tracked. Whether that

Lately, I've come across websites that instead of a cookie banner display a banner that states they recognize and honor my wish to not be tracked. Whether that really do or not is something I did not spend time looking into. The first time I saw it I thought it was a fluke, and then it happened a few more times with in a short time period. Couldn't tell you what sites they were though as it was just something from search results.

mmooss 6mo ago
Wow. I've never seen that. It would be great if it became more widespread. But isn't DNT deprecated in most browsers? Maybe I misremember.
- dylan604 6mo ago
  ::shrug:: I set it a long time ago and never looked back. I never looked into it being deprecated, but I knew that pretty much everyone ignored it for reasons. But by these banners, I'm guessing it still lives on as a setting.
  - LocalH 6mo ago
    Advertisers ignored it because MS decided to turn it into opt-in instead of opt-out, and advertisers very much hate opt-in. They'd much rather require the most permissive defaults, and put every barrier they can in front of opting out.
    - mmooss 6mo ago
      Users usually don't know about or change settings, so opt-out often means little. What portion of users knows about DNT? 1% 0.1% Microsoft knows that; they rendered DNT meaningless: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990485
quinndexter 6mo ago
Just here to say yeah, I've seen this more of this lately- "The do-not-track signal has been followed" or somesuch.
buzer 6mo ago
GPC must be honored in California. https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa/gpc https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa/gpc According to https://www.didomi.io/blog/global-privacy-control-gpc-2026 https://www.didomi.io/blog/global-privacy-control-gpc-2026 it must also be honored in 11 other states but I'm not familiar enough with the specifics regarding those.

mmooss 6mo ago

Wow. I've never seen that. It would be great if it became more widespread. But isn't DNT deprecated in most browsers? Maybe I misremember.

dylan604 6mo ago
::shrug:: I set it a long time ago and never looked back. I never looked into it being deprecated, but I knew that pretty much everyone ignored it for reasons. But by these banners, I'm guessing it still lives on as a setting.
- LocalH 6mo ago
  Advertisers ignored it because MS decided to turn it into opt-in instead of opt-out, and advertisers very much hate opt-in. They'd much rather require the most permissive defaults, and put every barrier they can in front of opting out.
  - mmooss 6mo ago
    Users usually don't know about or change settings, so opt-out often means little. What portion of users knows about DNT? 1% 0.1% Microsoft knows that; they rendered DNT meaningless: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990485

quinndexter 6mo ago

Just here to say yeah, I've seen this more of this lately- "The do-not-track signal has been followed" or somesuch.

buzer 6mo ago

GPC must be honored in California. https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa/gpc https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa/gpc According to https://www.didomi.io/blog/global-privacy-control-gpc-2026 https://www.didomi.io/blog/global-privacy-control-gpc-2026 it must also be honored in 11 other states but I'm not familiar enough with the specifics regarding those.