Re:Firefox: Why we won’t enable Do-Not-Track by default
by anonymous on Thursday March 21, 2013 @03:53AM
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Every OS comes with a browser other than firefox by default (except certain flavours of Linux, but they could make the choice part of the install process). If the user needs to look at something on the internet right now, they won't go searching for firefox, downloading and installing it. Having one simple checkbox that takes half a minute to decide on won't make installs take all that longer. Or just display a configuration page the first time the browser starts up with a "you can set all these later too from <here>, btw" message.
I agree with the default being ON (that is, DNT is turned on). The analogy with the doughnuts and pre-printed message isn't quite accurate in this case, because it is _clearly_ a better choice to not have tracking done on the user, whilst with a box of donuts, its not always clear cut whether sharing it or not is the right thing to do.