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Good, it's about time the lie of Do Not Track was put to bed. It gives people a false sense of control over their data and privacy - the intention was good but if it's not enforced then it makes people think they've done something to protect their privacy when they have done nothing.
plus it was another data point for profiling people based on their browser settings.
It was also possible to be used as part of a fingerprint.
Its removal is as useful in preventing fingerprinting as its presence was in protecting privacy.
How about the rare sites that respected it 🤔
If you respect it odds are that you aren't part of the problem to begin with.
why would small sites track you to begin with?
Talking about odysee,broadcomm,at&t,etc
so not small at all. i see you corrected the post too.
the main response to that is: how do you know they respect it?
Odysee it says in their privacy policy when they detect do not track is on they wont track you,At&t and boradcomm they have a system that sees the signal and declines tracking automatically
that doesn't mean anything, since it's all server side there's no way to verify. that's the problem with the dnt header. all it is is an extra data point.
also, fwiw i would not trust a service like odysee to abide by it's own policy at all, considering its history.
ohh okay.
If you wish to ask websites to respect your privacy, you can use the “Tell websites not to sell or share my data” setting. This option is built on top of the Global Privacy Control (GPC). GPC is respected by increasing numbers of sites and enforced with legislation in some regions. To learn more about this, please read Global Privacy Control.
So those sites can look at that.
Ohh it's forced by law in some countries, sounds better ngl.
I bet all 6 of them will be really upset.
DNT is going to give a false sense of security.
It only works for websites who respect it, but leads users to think they're somehow 'protected'.
Privacy focussed engineers add DNT feature to browsers...
Marketeer assholes: hey, another tracking data point!
In fact, sadly, DNT can be used to track user because only few users enable it.
Which is exactly why I'll never use it. Better to use tracking blockers, and things like Adnauseam to not only block tracking and ads but also sabotage them as well.
DNT is like some dumb legalist compromise because once people start blocking trackers or browsers start sending false fingerprinting data it's all over for advertisers and databrokers. That's what needs to actually be done, give control to the users, even if it means advertisers and databrokers will be screwed over.