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Re:Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default by rejberg on Friday February 22, 2019 @12:14PM (#19227005)
https://panopticlick.eff.org/ reports that 1 in 1.67 browsers send the DNT header, so the best option fingerprinting-wise might be to leave it on, at least information-wise.

Of course, that ratio will likely change when Safari drops support for DNT entirely. See discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19101156

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Re:Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default by KozmoNau7 on Friday February 22, 2019 @04:25PM (#19229250)
They send the header, but with which value? I probably didn't express myself well enough, I want my browser to send the "DNT not configured" value.
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Re:Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default by rejberg on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @11:34AM (#19255732)
Sorry, I left that part out. My browser sends DNT=1, and I get 1/1.67, which should mean that 1/1.67 browsers send DNT=1. This means that the total share of browsers that send the DNT header at all is at least 1/1.67, but probably higher.
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