DNT was useless because you're only kindly asking to not be tracked. No advertiser respects it, because they don't have to. It actually has the opposite effect, because another data point just helps them narrow you down for better tracking.
I don't like where FF is going, but calling them out for this is disingenuous.
Using something that tells ad servers "hey please don't track me" and have it disabled by default for most browsers is really just another easy fingerprinting mechanism.
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Blaster_M@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 1y
Unfortunately, the old Do Not Track setting worked on the honor system. Since when have advertisers ever worked on the honor system?
ramsorge@discuss.online · 29 pts · 1y
Not like any website ever took that “request” seriously.
PseudorandomNoise@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
stoly@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Oh yeah let’s bash on Firefox again for some reason while ignoring everyone else
justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io · 5 pts · 1y
Its already a bait and switch in that it was only ever a request and I very much doubt any corporate website ever listened to that request.
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world · -14 pts · 1y
Really incredibly disheartening that Firefox sold out. We really can’t have anything nice.
ramsorge@discuss.online · 21 pts · 1y
Firefox isn’t the problem
Bezier@suppo.fi · 15 pts · 1y
DNT was useless because you're only kindly asking to not be tracked. No advertiser respects it, because they don't have to. It actually has the opposite effect, because another data point just helps them narrow you down for better tracking.
I don't like where FF is going, but calling them out for this is disingenuous.
stardom8048@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Probably more "ill-informed" than "disingenuous" but I agree.
Plasma@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 1y
Using something that tells ad servers "hey please don't track me" and have it disabled by default for most browsers is really just another easy fingerprinting mechanism.