Re:German court declares Do Not Track to be legally binding
by HelloNurse on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @07:02AM
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Discussing defaults is only a distraction. Browsers are, in their own words, a "user agent" and their requests are the user's requests.
Re:German court declares Do Not Track to be legally binding
by Aerroon on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @07:30AM
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If this were true, then wouldn't your browser sending out personal data constitute consent to have that data tracked? After all, the website asks you to give them the data and the browser complies.
Re:German court declares Do Not Track to be legally binding
by layer8 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @07:55AM
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The browser sending data doesn’t authorize the server to store it for tracking purposes.
Re:German court declares Do Not Track to be legally binding
by noirscape on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @07:56AM
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To be fair, Chrome is basically doing everything it can to stop being the users agent and is instead Googles fun magic box you use to see what goes on on the internet (with the explicit long-term goal for Chrome to just be Googles freely downloadable OS overlaid onto your Windows/Mac/Linux, given how many system APIs Google keeps dumping into the browser).
I don't blame people for forgetting that part sometimes, given how 90% of the population uses a browser that doesn't serve their interests.
You could argue that by using a browser where the DNT header is set by default, they are making that decision on their privacy by y'know, using those browsers over the ones where they're not set by default. Ad companies don't want that argument, they want you to opt out in every browser (and ideally they'd just ignore the header entirely, which they do after Microsoft enabled it by default in Explorer).