Firefox: Why we won’t enable Do-Not-Track by default

Re:Firefox: Why we won’t enable Do-Not-Track by default by Monkeyget on Thursday March 21, 2013 @02:53AM (#5413401)

Do-Not-Track has been designed to represent the explicit choice of the user to not be tracked. As per the DNT[1] draft :

  6.2.  User Interface RECOMMENDED
  A user agent that implements Do Not Track SHOULD provide a user interface 
  for modifying preferences.  The user interface design is left to the 
  user agent.

  6.3.  Default
  A user agent MAY adopt NO-EXPRESSED-PREFERENCE or OPT-OUT by default.
  It MUST NOT transmit OPT-IN without explicit user consent.

Another important aspect, that I don't see mentioned much, is that DNT is only supposed to prevent third-party tracking. First-party remains unaffected.

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mayer-do-not-track-00

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Re:Firefox: Why we won’t enable Do-Not-Track by default by abalone on Thursday March 21, 2013 @03:42AM (#5413595)

Uh.. doesn't it say OPT-OUT is an acceptable browser default?

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Re:Firefox: Why we won’t enable Do-Not-Track by default by scotty79 on Thursday March 21, 2013 @03:44AM (#5413606)

Yes. Also defaults matter.

Countries that have opt-in default on organ donations have at most around 30% of consent.

Those that have opt-out have above 90% consent.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/archives/11953

Basically Mozilla is saying: "It your decision to not be tracked." and thinking "But we think you should allow everyone to track you if you don't mind that much."

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