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The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Track

The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Track

Posted Jul 22, 2020 20:45 UTC (Wed) by marbe (guest, #134563)
Parent article: The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Track

I don't know how it is in the rest of the world but in EU one of the changes GDPR brought are 'advanced' cookie consent tools distinguishing consents for different levels/purposes of tracking. It took about few months to deploy. It would be nice to present these tools also to users who send the DNT header when sites make use of such cookies.

And by the way... Am I the only one unable to comprehend the "peace among worlds" presented by sites to users when they declare "Oh, we don't have the slightest idea of what do you mean by 'DO NOT TRACK'. Oh, you must mean you want us to run whichever javascript code we like on your computer to gather any data we desire. Well.. that's what we were about to do anyway so.. We're going to simply ignore your request. Thanks for visiting and don't forget to give us five stars in this form called 'How did you enjoy the 500ms of us gathering your data?' Feel free to come again!"?

Thumbs Up for all sites respecting the DNT and sorry for the rant.


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The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Track

Posted Jul 28, 2020 9:18 UTC (Tue) by nilsmeyer (guest, #122604) [Link]

Throw in the obligatory "your privacy is very important to us" banner, of course with the implied caveat "making money is even more important, though").


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