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Re:European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveil... by simion314 on Monday October 11, 2021 @02:57PM (#28831656)
You still find people here on HN that want to be tracked, they are convinced that tracking is necessary. So a browser could implement something to shut this people up, Instead of a simple flag On or off, you can start with 3 states, On, Off, Unset and you can have it set per webpage.
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Re:European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveil... by pgeorgi on Monday October 11, 2021 @07:05PM (#28834109)
The DNT spec offers these three states. It also doesn't say anything about it being global, so a browser UI could have a default + overrides.

The general sentiment seems to be that "if you want it, you want it, and who would want it explictly off?"

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