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Do not send "Do not track" requests by default #2950

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Lenni-builder opened this issue Feb 3, 2024 · 4 comments
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Do not send "Do not track" requests by default #2950

Lenni-builder opened this issue Feb 3, 2024 · 4 comments
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"Do not track" requests can be used to fingerprint your browser, because very few people use that feature. Most sites that don't fingerprint you with it completely ignore it anyways.

@ghostwords ghostwords added the DNT policy EFF's Do Not Track policy: www.eff.org/dnt-policy label Feb 4, 2024
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ghostwords commented Feb 4, 2024

Hello and thanks for opening an issue!

If the privacy cost is justified by the privacy benefit, then we should continue to send the signal.

It may be that Global Privacy Control replaces Do Not Track well enough, in which case we should retire1 DNT and continue with GPC alone.

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  1. If it no longer makes sense to have something on by default, we should then remove that feature from Privacy Badger.

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German court bans LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals

-- https://stackdiary.com/german-court-bans-linkedin-from-ignoring-do-not-track-signals/ (HN thread)

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ghostwords commented Jun 19, 2024

Transcend Consent Management's default config affords more privacy protections to DNT than GPC.

-- duckduckgo/duckduckgo-privacy-extension#1417 (comment)

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