Do Not Track is not respected on mozilla.org

Re:Do Not Track is not respected on mozilla.org by lucb1e on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @09:18AM (#6133420)

The very fact that the website must support DNT is its only and fatal flaw. Why should we trust websites to honor DNT when we keep sharing information with them?

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Re:Do Not Track is not respected on mozilla.org by jimktrains2 on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @10:01AM (#6133688)

I agree entirely. IF I send a request, I expect that request to be stored. If I don't want to make the request, I won't make the request (noscript, ghostery, and AdBlock+ go a long way to that).

DNT is a pointless 8 bytes that has no real, enforceable meaning.

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Re:Do Not Track is not respected on mozilla.org by generj on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @01:40PM (#6135481)

We can have our cake and eat it too.

Send the DNT header flag, but purposefully edit analytics requests. Thus, providers must honor DNT requests or risk a poisoned well of data.

This is not theoretical, I have a Chrome plugin which does this to Google Analytics requests, and am increasingly tempted to release it to the world.

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