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Re:German court declares Do Not Track to be legally binding by arp242 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @09:11AM (#38084284)
> Not a lawyer, but basically the website cannot distinguish whether a DNT setting was enabled by default or whether the user intended to set it so it really does not matter. It must be assumed that the user enabled the DNT setting.

In Firefox you can't even turn it off, except maybe via some about:config thingy, so that's not really an entirely valid assumption.

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Re:German court declares Do Not Track to be legally binding by 6031769 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @09:51AM (#38084805)
Of course you can turn it off. Edit -> Settings -> search for "track" -> select "Only when Firefox is set to block known trackers". Job done.
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Re:German court declares Do Not Track to be legally binding by arp242 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @01:36PM (#38088477)
Yes exactly, you can't turn it off.
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