DNT was useless because you’re only kindly asking to not be tracked. No advertiser respects it, because they don’t have to. It actually has the opposite effect, because another data point just helps them narrow you down for better tracking.
I don’t like where FF is going, but calling them out for this is disingenuous.
Using something that tells ad servers “hey please don’t track me” and have it disabled by default for most browsers is really just another easy fingerprinting mechanism.
Really incredibly disheartening that Firefox sold out. We really can’t have anything nice.
Firefox isn’t the problem
DNT was useless because you’re only kindly asking to not be tracked. No advertiser respects it, because they don’t have to. It actually has the opposite effect, because another data point just helps them narrow you down for better tracking.
I don’t like where FF is going, but calling them out for this is disingenuous.
Probably more “ill-informed” than “disingenuous” but I agree.
Using something that tells ad servers “hey please don’t track me” and have it disabled by default for most browsers is really just another easy fingerprinting mechanism.