Back where it started: “Do Not Track” removed from Firefox after 13 years
Back where it started: “Do Not Track” removed from Firefox after 13 years
Firefox isn’t the last browser to drop Do Not Track, but it’s a symbolic end to a long, sad campaign to claw back a little privacy.
Makes sense. It was an idealistic idea that was never going to work because it would rely on advertisers honoring a consumer’s request.
And honestly just made you stick out like a sore thumb fingerprinting wise. Probably for the best honestly.
Without the force of law, this was never going to work.
Perhaps if the EU had used the presence of absence of the Do Not Track header as their method of determining cookie consent, it could have ended up being useful both from a privacy standpoint and to have saved us from the scourge of annoying as fuck cookie banners they ended up causing. Ah well.
Unfortunate, but understandable :(
I wish we could rely on good faith with something like this, but it seems the only way is to block as much tracking as possible by force.Most firefox users have ublock origin and other tracker blockers which actually work.
Can't wait for the FUD posts about how Mozilla is the worst organization ever for removing this.
That is disappointing
In reality nothing really changes.
“Do Not Track” removed from Firefox after 13 years
What the fuck did I do to you to be so rude?