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Re:Judge in Google case disturbed that 'incognito' users are... by feoren on Friday February 26, 2021 @01:57PM (#26278369)
If it just sets the "do not track" header, you don't necessarily know whether the user is in private browsing or just always has that enabled. I think adding the extra identifying bit to the sea of identifying information would be worth it if we had regulation (with teeth!) around what sites were/were not allowed to do with "do not track" on.
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Re:Judge in Google case disturbed that 'incognito' users are... by laurent92 on Friday February 26, 2021 @03:30PM (#26279506)
The header takes the values DNT=null (user didn’t specify), DNT=0 (can track), or DNT=1. We could have DNT=2 (really do not track?). Why not DNT=3 (“please disregard my login even if I attempt to”?).
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