2018-10-17 at 4:15 PM UTC
https://it.slashdot.org/story/18/10/16/2234235/do-not-track-the-privacy-tool-used-by-millions-of-people-doesnt-do-anythingApproximately no one honours it.
I found this comment interesting:
The reality behind this absurd design is more interesting: the alleged "standard" had never been anything more than a publicity stunt orchestrated by Google and their (at that time) lapdog Mozilla. The reason why they did that was to block a competing DNT mechanism, proposed by Microsoft as a W3C standard. Microsoft's design stopped your browser from connecting to a tracker site completely. It didn't rely on the tracker's good will and honesty; it was a pro-consumer, not pro-ad industry solution.
Google realized the danger, and proposed a different mechanism (the current "standard"). Via their membership in the Digital Advertising Alliance and other ad industry groups (participants in the W3C's standardization commitee), they forced it through, with great fanfare, thus blocking the consumer-friendly alternative.
The ridiculousness of the design was obvious at the time. Just a few things: it's impossible to enforce your settings against a non-cooperating site. It's impossible to even confirm whether your request is being honored. There's no mechanism for a site to notify you in advance that it won't respect the DNT header. Add the fact that it's opt-out (leaving the less-technical majority of users unprotected by default), and it's pretty clear who the "standard" was for - hint: it was not for consumers.
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2018-10-17 at 4:47 PM UTC
go ahead and track a drop-device connected to a public wi-fi at the furthest point of its signal strength range...
2018-10-17 at 5:01 PM UTC
Originally posted by infinityshock
go ahead and track a drop-device connected to a public wi-fi at the furthest point of its signal strength range…
It's not tracking in the sense you are thinking of. It has more to do with tracking what you do with your browser over multiple sites, through tracking cookies and stuff like that. It's done because Google wants to know if you shopped for big black dildos at Amazon, so they can advertise big black dildos to you on other sites.
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2018-10-17 at 7:46 PM UTC
I suggest just using multiple browsers on multiple PCs. Every once in a while you should shatter the disk in your HDD. Every great once in a while you should dispose of certain devices, depending on your activities.
I've been doing this for decades. Profits from certain activies should cover future expenses. Good luck.
2019-02-07 at 10:51 PM UTC
my computer is made out of likwids nitrogen and magma energy so no one can see the daytum n shit
2019-02-07 at 11:39 PM UTC
-SpectraL
coward
[the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
Do not track tells the feds you have something to hide that they may need to look into.
2019-02-11 at 6:41 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
yeah, I never paid any attention to it - instead of blocking tracking cookies, it just enables another cookie that says 'pls don't track me', to which facebook replies 'LOL OK'
2019-02-11 at 6:48 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
not anymore, but I'm talking generally - facebook's one of the most prolific abusers of tracking cookies and the like
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/19/02/07/1323253/apple-removes-useless-do-not-track-feature-from-latest-beta-versions-of-safari
