> advocates had evidence of both demand for privacy and of trackers ignoring user wishes.
replyThis evidence both still exists and is also completely useless for anything. The more important consideration, by far, is that the DNT flag was actively harmful to users in the real world because, if it was acknowledged at all, it was used maliciously to help fingerprint and track users. There is no reason for browsers to continue providing to their users a toggle that not only misleads them about what will happen with the setting enabled, but actively contributes to the opposite outcome because we live in a world where being evil is the norm.
Lately, I've come across websites that instead of a cookie banner display a banner that states they recognize and honor my wish to not be tracked. Whether that really do or not is something I did not spend time looking into. The first time I saw it I thought it was a fluke, and then it happened a few more times with in a short time period. Couldn't tell you what sites they were though as it was just something from search results.
replyJust here to say yeah, I've seen this more of this lately- "The do-not-track signal has been followed" or somesuch.
replyWow. I've never seen that. It would be great if it became more widespread.
replyBut isn't DNT deprecated in most browsers? Maybe I misremember.
::shrug:: I set it a long time ago and never looked back. I never looked into it being deprecated, but I knew that pretty much everyone ignored it for reasons. But by these banners, I'm guessing it still lives on as a setting.
replyGlobal Privacy Control replaced Do Not Track.
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