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Mark all features from DNT spec deprecated #10469

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The https://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/ spec never made it to W3C Recommendation; instead it was retired as a Working Group Note:

https://www.w3.org/TR/2019/NOTE-tracking-dnt-20190117/

In the W3C spec database its formal status is Retired:

https://www.w3.org/TR/?tag=privacy&status=ret

And the Status section of https://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/ itself says:

Since its last publication as a Candidate Recommendation, there has not been sufficient deployment of these extensions (as defined) to justify further advancement, nor have there been indications of planned support among user agents, third parties, and the ecosystem at large.

All of that is sufficient to merit the features being marked as deprecated in BCD.

The affected features are:

  • the DNT HTTP request header
  • the Tk HTTP response header
  • the navigator.doNotTrack property

Related MDN change: mdn/content#4960

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The https://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/ spec never made it to W3C
Recommendation; instead it was retired as a W3C Working Group Note:

https://www.w3.org/TR/2019/NOTE-tracking-dnt-20190117/

In the W3C spec database its formal status is Retired:

https://www.w3.org/TR/?tag=privacy&status=ret

And the Status section of https://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/ itself says:

> Since its last publication as a Candidate Recommendation, there has
> not been sufficient deployment of these extensions (as defined) to
> justify further advancement, nor have there been indications of planned
> support among user agents, third parties, and the ecosystem at large.

All of that is sufficient to merit the features being marked as
deprecated in BCD.

So this change adds a Deprecated banner to the following articles:

* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/DNT
* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Tk
* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/doNotTrack

Related BCD change: mdn/browser-compat-data#10469
@sideshowbarker sideshowbarker force-pushed the sideshowbarker/tracking-dnt-features-deprecate branch from 4d75500 to 0df2903 Compare May 13, 2021 01:58
sideshowbarker added a commit to w3c/browser-specs that referenced this pull request May 13, 2021
https://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/ never made it to Recommendation;
instead it was retired as a Working Group Note:

https://www.w3.org/TR/2019/NOTE-tracking-dnt-20190117/

Its formal status is Retired:

https://www.w3.org/TR/?tag=privacy&status=ret

And its Status section says:

> Since its last publication as a Candidate Recommendation, there has
> not been sufficient deployment of these extensions (as defined) to
> justify further advancement, nor have there been indications of planned
> support among user agents, third parties, and the ecosystem at large.

Related BCD change: mdn/browser-compat-data#10469
Related MDN change: mdn/content#4960
The https://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/ spec never made it to W3C
Recommendation; instead it was retired as a W3C Working Group Note:

https://www.w3.org/TR/2019/NOTE-tracking-dnt-20190117/

In the W3C spec database its formal status is Retired:

https://www.w3.org/TR/?tag=privacy&status=ret

And the Status section of https://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/ itself says:

> Since its last publication as a Candidate Recommendation, there has
> not been sufficient deployment of these extensions (as defined) to
> justify further advancement, nor have there been indications of planned
> support among user agents, third parties, and the ecosystem at large.

All of that is sufficient to merit the features being marked as
deprecated in BCD.

The affected features are:

* the DNT HTTP request header
* the Tk HTTP response header
* the navigator.doNotTrack property

Related MDN change: mdn/content#4960
@sideshowbarker sideshowbarker force-pushed the sideshowbarker/tracking-dnt-features-deprecate branch from 0df2903 to c0e51d5 Compare May 15, 2021 02:01
@sideshowbarker sideshowbarker merged commit ece749a into mdn:main May 15, 2021
@sideshowbarker sideshowbarker deleted the sideshowbarker/tracking-dnt-features-deprecate branch May 15, 2021 02:09
wbamberg pushed a commit to mdn/content that referenced this pull request May 15, 2021
The https://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/ spec never made it to W3C
Recommendation; instead it was retired as a W3C Working Group Note:

https://www.w3.org/TR/2019/NOTE-tracking-dnt-20190117/

In the W3C spec database its formal status is Retired:

https://www.w3.org/TR/?tag=privacy&status=ret

And the Status section of https://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/ itself says:

> Since its last publication as a Candidate Recommendation, there has
> not been sufficient deployment of these extensions (as defined) to
> justify further advancement, nor have there been indications of planned
> support among user agents, third parties, and the ecosystem at large.

All of that is sufficient to merit the features being marked as
deprecated in BCD.

So this change adds a Deprecated banner to the following articles:

* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/DNT
* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Tk
* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/doNotTrack

Related BCD change: mdn/browser-compat-data#10469
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