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Re:CNIL imposes a financial penalty of 50M euros against Google by dennisgorelik on Monday January 21, 2019 @01:10PM (#18962168)
> Do Not Track option activated in my browser

1) "Incognito" mode.

2) "Clear browsing data".

> Seems like nobody cared about it

That is exactly my point: vast majority of users do not care much about removing their cookies.

If users do not really care -- why pollute UI of websites with questions that users do not care about?

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Re:CNIL imposes a financial penalty of 50M euros against Google by TACIXAT on Monday January 21, 2019 @02:44PM (#18962974)
Those things don't stop companies from collecting information on you. I wish that stuff was stored locally.

>Most websites and web services, including Google's, don't change their behavior when they receive a Do Not Track request. [1]

1. https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2790761

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