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Re:Stack Overflow lets Facebook track users across their sites by 0xmohit on Monday May 13, 2019 @04:50PM (#19903814)
Stack Overflow does not honor Do Not Track [0] and in response to a question [1] indicated that they don't intend to do that either.

Tracking (including third-party tracking) seems like a feature.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track

[1] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237062/does-stack-e...

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Re:Stack Overflow lets Facebook track users across their sites by emptysea on Monday May 13, 2019 @09:23PM (#19905911)
Safari has even removed Do Not Track because it can be used for fingerprinting.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari_release_not...

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Re:Stack Overflow lets Facebook track users across their sites by EpicEng on Monday May 13, 2019 @05:36PM (#19904225)
Almost no one does.
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Re:Stack Overflow lets Facebook track users across their sites by icebraining on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @02:27AM (#19907240)
> including third-party tracking

I don't see how this follows. What does SO have to gain by allowing FB to track SO users? Just seems like laziness to me.

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Re:Stack Overflow lets Facebook track users across their sites by variable11 on Monday May 13, 2019 @07:27PM (#19905121)
Maybe an EU law will require sites to honor do not track or face stiff fines.
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