"Do Not Track" removed from Firefox after 13 years(arstechnica.com)
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"Do Not Track" removed from Firefox after 13 years
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/12/firefox-one-of-the-first-do-not-track-supporters-no-longer-offers-it/
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I 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/a381ff35fa4d50a5f7b9f...
[1]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/apach...
[0]: https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/a381ff35fa4d50a5f7b9f...
[1]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/apach...
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