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Mozilla Firefox removes "Do Not Track" Feature support: Here's what it means for your Privacy (windowsreport.com)
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https://windowsreport.com/mozilla-firefox-removes-do-not-track-feature-support-heres-what-it-means-for-your-privacy/

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[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

How about the rare sites that respected it 🤔

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 31 points 2 weeks ago

If you respect it odds are that you aren't part of the problem to begin with.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

why would small sites track you to begin with?

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Talking about odysee,broadcomm,at&t,etc

[–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

so not small at all. i see you corrected the post too.

the main response to that is: how do you know they respect it?

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Odysee it says in their privacy policy when they detect do not track is on they wont track you,At&t and boradcomm they have a system that sees the signal and declines tracking automatically

[–] lime@feddit.nu 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

that doesn't mean anything, since it's all server side there's no way to verify. that's the problem with the dnt header. all it is is an extra data point.

also, fwiw i would not trust a service like odysee to abide by it's own policy at all, considering its history.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

ohh okay.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you wish to ask websites to respect your privacy, you can use the “Tell websites not to sell or share my data” setting. This option is built on top of the Global Privacy Control (GPC). GPC is respected by increasing numbers of sites and enforced with legislation in some regions. To learn more about this, please read Global Privacy Control.

So those sites can look at that.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

Ohh it's forced by law in some countries, sounds better ngl.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I bet all 6 of them will be really upset.