Firefox is getting rid of its 'Do Not Track' setting and what it's being replaced with is a bit of a bait and switch for privacy concerns

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• Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Unfortunately, the old Do Not Track setting wirmed on the honor system. Since when have advertisers ever worked on the honor system?

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• ramsorge@discuss.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not like any website ever took that “request” seriously.

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  • PseudorandomNoise@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Once Microsoft enabled it by default in IE/Edge that was the end of it. The whole point was to be an opt-in.

    Ironically it was also used as another data point for fingerprinting users. It was a nice idea in theory but it just wasn’t gonna work.

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• stoly@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oh yeah let’s bash on Firefox again for some reason while ignoring everyone else

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  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They’re the best option available.

    They’re fucking up the reasons why.

    Welcome to every year for the last twenty years.

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• AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Really incredibly disheartening that Firefox sold out. We really can’t have anything nice.

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  • ramsorge@discuss.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Firefox isn’t the problem

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  • Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    DNT was useless because you’re only kindly asking to not be tracked. No advertiser respects it, because they don’t have to. It’s actually has the opposite effect, because another data point just helps narrow you down for better tracking.

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    • stardom8048@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Probably more “ill-informed” than “disingenuous” but I agree.

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  • Plasma@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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