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Re:German court declares Do Not Track to be legally binding by gmueckl on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @06:48AM (#38082798)
But the website can perfectly reliably determine whether the browser's vendor string matches a browser version that has DNT enabled by default.
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Re:German court declares Do Not Track to be legally binding by Macha on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @06:51AM (#38082813)
You've missed the point. Knowing the browser sets it by default says nothing about whether the user consciously decided to keep it that way, so claiming that it's just the browser default and therefore to be ignored was always just wordplay.
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Re:German court declares Do Not Track to be legally binding by gmueckl on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @08:10AM (#38083546)
True. I probably misread the first sentence completely. My bad.
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