Re:3 years of GDPR: The biggest fines so far
by kmeisthax on Monday May 24, 2021 @05:17PM
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They did. It was called Do-Not-Track and Microsoft had the bright idea to pull an iOS 14 and turn it on by default in IE. At that point the few ad companies that had supported it basically told the browser vendors to pound sand and it became entirely useless for anything but fingerprinting.
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Re:3 years of GDPR: The biggest fines so far
by MiddleEndian on Monday May 24, 2021 @10:52PM
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Do not track should have been on by default. But the idea that anyone would ever obey it without the legal force was always a fantasy. If 90% of people checked "do not track" do you think they would have started to follow it? Of course not. They would just have some other reason.