Ask HN: Should I Not Use Do Not Track?

Posted by quttiae on Sunday December 01, 2019 @08:38PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Apparently only 10% or less of users use DNT, which makes it a nice way to track you around the web.

And considering only a handful of sites actually bother respecting it (google doesn't give a fuck, for instance) + the fact I already have an adblocker...

Should I just not enable it?

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Re:Ask HN: Should I Not Use Do Not Track? by pranaygp on Sunday December 01, 2019 @08:52PM (#21679274)

I use Brave, which comes with amazing defaults to block ads and trackers. But even Brave seems to have DNT turned off by default.

I have it turned off. I suspect having DNT turned on would actually help with fingerprinting (like you said, only 10% of people have it on, so it's easy to narrow you down).

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