Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web Browsing (2015)

Re:Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web B... by hermitdev on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @02:22PM (#16118016)

I seriously doubt this will gain much traction. I would love it to, but I doubt the motives behind advertisers.

I mean, just look at the current state of advertising on mobile. One constantly gets ads hijacking the browser to show ads ostensibly from Amazon or Walmart (I doubt either Amazon or Walmart would actually prevent you from getting to the content you're looking at). The "well-done" ads prevent you from even hitting the back-button on your browser to return to the content. Being an Android user, I've effectively taken to using MS Edge on Android, because at least in Edge, I can disable javascript, which has gone a long way to crippling such ads. (Before anyone asks: I'm normally a Chrome user + UBlock, etc etc, but Chrome doesn't support extensions on Android, and I've never had good luck with FireFox for anything other than draining battery).

When Ad companies learn to play nice and not hijack my browser and occasionally serve up out right malware, maybe, just MAYBE, will I reconsider playing nice with them.

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Re:Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web B... by mtgx on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @02:58PM (#16118421)

You're right. The ship has sailed...for advertisers. They'll wish this DNT variant had caught-on, because since then ublock origin and others like it have become significantly more popular, the native-adblock Brave browser is growing slow and steady, and now even Mozilla offers users the option to disable all tracking. Perhaps in another couple of years Mozilla will enable it by default for everyone.

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Re:Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web B... by brokensegue on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @03:06PM (#16118513)

citation on brave growth?

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Re:Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web B... by Endy on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @04:53PM (#16119487)

Except of course tracking for Mozilla's monetary and advertising partners, like Google. They'll pass that off as part of their Shield Studies and insert hidden tracking plugins into the browser which will be invisible to the user.

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Re:Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web B... by KozmoNau7 on Thursday January 11, 2018 @08:40AM (#16123728)

You'll need to provide some pretty solid proof for that accusation.

Credible Wireshark log dumps would be a good start.

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Re:Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web B... by Endy on Thursday January 11, 2018 @01:32PM (#16126422)

Since I refused to downgrade to WebExtensions Firefox, and I'm currently using Pale Moon for most browsing (and I'm looking at Otter as a possible #2), I don't have access to it anymore. I simply do not trust Mozilla anymore, or Firefox.

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Re:Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web B... by KozmoNau7 on Friday January 12, 2018 @04:53AM (#16131680)

So you have absolutely no proof of any kind, other than paranoid ideas, which fits in nicely with the usual misguided anti-webextensions ranting.

I'm sorry, but if you expect anyone to believe you, you're going to have to produce actual evidence.

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Re:Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web B... by anowlcalledjosh on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @02:41PM (#16118237)

> at least in Edge, I can disable javascript

Note that you can also do this in Chrome: Settings/Site settings/JavaScript.

If you're looking for another way to block ads on mobile, DNS66 works pretty well for me, and it's FOSS IIRC (obviously it doesn't get everything, there's only so much a DNS-based blocker can do, but it catches most ads except YouTube's in my experience).

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Re:Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web B... by hermitdev on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @03:08PM (#16118535)

I did look fairly hard about how to disable JS in Chrome on Android, but didn't see it. I'll give it another look.

I do use DNS blocking on my home PC, and yes, it works great, but obviously that is a moving target, especially if you don't actively maintain it.

I'm not familiar with DNS66 - I'll give it a closer look later tonight.

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Re:Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web B... by warent on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @03:14PM (#16118590)

A search for "android chrome disable JavaScript" gave me this as the instructions on how to do so.

The top result: http://ccm.net/faq/39964-google-chrome-for-android-turn-off-...

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