The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Track

Posted Jul 26, 2020 23:04 UTC (Sun) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Track by mageta
Parent article: The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Track

> The logic would still be the wrong way around. The default ought to be "I don't want to be tracked", and you can opt-in to be tracked if you like. If its any other way no meaningful amount of people will ever use it.

That's irrelevant. If DNT is set, then the user has explicitly made a choice. In that case browsers shouldn't kick up a banner, they should just honour that choice.

If W3C or whoever specifies an equivalent "opt in" "I don't care about trackers" flag, then web sites should honour that, too.

Cheers,
Wol

The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Track

Posted Jul 27, 2020 3:07 UTC (Mon) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link]

But it doesn't match many sites' business model. So instead of no popup you'd see the annoying "hey, make an exception for us or subscribe, otherwise you won't see any content" popup we're been fed by news sites for the last couple years.