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Re:Am I Unique? by saghm on Saturday January 25, 2020 @10:07PM (#22150132)
This makes me curious; has anyone tried making an extension to randomly choose for each request whether or not to send "Do Not Track"? There are probably a lot of other settings that similarly don't affect the page in any visible way that could also be randomized as well. I doubt I'm the first person to think of this!
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Re:Am I Unique? by throwaway41597 on Sunday January 26, 2020 @08:48AM (#22152043)
Unless everyone was doing this, it'd be worse as you'd be in the few who have this extension (which sounds like it can trivially be tested by a webpage making a couple of requests).

Better remove the DNT header from this point of view.

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