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It's not, hence the push from browsers to remove Do Not Track.



Really? Firefox now enables the DNT header by default. If all Firefox users have DNT enabled, then it can't be used as a data point.

I don't like DNT, and I don't like that the EFF pushes for it. Users shouldn't have to ask to not be tracked - websites should respect your privacy by default, and if they don't, users should take control with tools such as uBlock Origin.

Also, privacy means different things to different people. Two of the most privacy advocating websites in existence, eff.org and privacytools.io, think it's OK to collect anonymous stats on site usage. Yet the authors of EasyPrivacy (a filterlist enabled by default in uBlock Origin) make no exceptions and block both of those sites from collecting data.


Safari has removed it, as websites wouldn’t respect it.




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