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Re:Panopticlick by glandium on Saturday October 26, 2019 @05:50AM (#21362795)
"Does your browser unblock 3rd parties that promise to honor Do Not Track?"

"No" comes with a red X like if it's a bad thing, but... Is it?

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Re:Panopticlick by robbya on Sunday October 27, 2019 @02:34PM (#21371552)
I found the stats for DNT interesting. 1 in 1.92 have DNT header enabled. So having it as False gives more bits of info. Presumably that's just stats for folks using panopticlick, so heavily skewed towards folks who know about privacy.

> DNT Header Enabled? | 0.94 | 1.92 | True

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Re:Panopticlick by saagarjha on Sunday October 27, 2019 @01:30PM (#21371107)
It's not, hence the push from browsers to remove Do Not Track.
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Re:Panopticlick by temp128349 on Sunday October 27, 2019 @07:50PM (#21373244)
Really? Firefox now enables the DNT header by default. If all Firefox users have DNT enabled, then it can't be used as a data point.

I don't like DNT, and I don't like that the EFF pushes for it. Users shouldn't have to ask to not be tracked - websites should respect your privacy by default, and if they don't, users should take control with tools such as uBlock Origin.

Also, privacy means different things to different people. Two of the most privacy advocating websites in existence, eff.org and privacytools.io, think it's OK to collect anonymous stats on site usage. Yet the authors of EasyPrivacy (a filterlist enabled by default in uBlock Origin) make no exceptions and block both of those sites from collecting data.

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Re:Panopticlick by saagarjha on Monday October 28, 2019 @08:45AM (#21376350)
Safari has removed it, as websites wouldn’t respect it.
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