My ad blocker has a DNT they cannot abandon.
Which is exactly how DNT should work, because client-side defeating of tracking is the only way to be sure you aren't actually being tracked.
Twitter abandons 'Do Not Track' privacy protection
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#22DNT made sense only in a world where there would be some sort of law to back it up. I actually had my adblocker turned off on websites I knew at least tried to respect DNT (reddit, medium and twitter), guess twitter's getting completely adblocked now.
Was the initial hope that the tech would come first and the legislation would follow?
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#24My ad blocker has a DNT they cannot abandon.
There are many ways to track you, ad-blocking prevents just a tiny little thing. There are things like pixel tracking that is not very easy to detect/block.
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#25DNT made sense only in a world where there would be some sort of law to back it up. I actually had my adblocker turned off on websites I knew at least tried to respect DNT (reddit, medium and twitter), guess twitter's getting completely adblocked now.
I wonder if the major adblockers should have whitelisted the DNT-respecting sites by default.
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#26Ok, honestly, was DNT ever more than a smoke grenade for muddying the privacy discussion? The standard always relied on every single shady data collector out there to act against their core interest, facing not even the risk of detection (let alone punishment) if they don't comply, all just because you asked them nicely. You might as well carry a "do not rob me" card in your wallet. Was there ever a honest belief by…
It certainly isn't a complete solution, but it probably did reduce the number of ad networks that tracked you. So yes, I guess you could say it works?
"probably" doesn't lead to "yes, it works". What's the tradeoff? How many good actors does "probably" imply?
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#28It's interesting how Microsoft killed DNT - by supporting it. Once they made it the default, it was all over. It was so obvious that doing so would kill DNT that I have to wonder if they did that on purpose. It's definitely an interesting way of stopping something you don't like - support it to such a degree that those who asked for it don't want it anymore.
This.
If any Good citizen site ever thought about honoring DNT they got their plans crushed when Microsoft did this.
It was a silly proposal from the start but a hopeful one. Hopeful that people would do the right thing. The web was always built on assumptions that the other side would do the right thing in that context DNT was not so silly.
This one failed. Because Microsoft didn't do the right thing. They decided to use DNT as a marketing platform instead.
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It certainly isn't a complete solution, but it probably did reduce the number of ad networks that tracked you. So yes, I guess you could say it works?
"probably" doesn't lead to "yes, it works". What's the tradeoff? How many good actors does "probably" imply?
Chemotherapy will probably cure your cancer but since it isn't 100% effective you'd decline?
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You may be blocking ads, but your ad blocker can't prevent the site from tracking you.
My solution is to change the DNS settings in my router to set all domains for Facebook to 0.0.0.0. So, *.facebook.com 0.0.0.0 I'm sure the same could be done with Twitter. This ensures that they cannot track you on e.g. a news site or any other site with a "share" feature. But... This only works if you're willing to entirely live without Facebook/Twitter. Probably not the best choice for the majority of people.
If you have a raspberry pi lying around (probably other *nix machines would work too), you can setup https://pi-hole.net
I run it at home and it blocks the ads on my entire network. Work exactly like your method.