Was it anything but another bit for identification?
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Firefox removes "do not track" feature support
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Re: Firefox removes "do not track" feature support
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>they became an ad company ???
Maybe this is a reference to:
Re: Firefox removes "do not track" feature support
#13The feature was being used to track people because of how low usage was
An obvious solution would be to turn it on by default
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#14In my unpopular opinion it was a silly cart before the horse idea to begin with. I do not believe I need to be a lawyer to suggest there would first need to be a set of laws with some serious consequences if a company does not respect the header and can not prove it has respected the header when a court, legal team or the individual request proof. And that is only useful if the company is in a country that must respect such laws. Each country would need their own corresponding laws. And of course the devious companies would move their headquarters to some island nation.
By consequences I mean a percentage of their revenue vs profit which can be waved away by accountants is seized, donated to people affected by shady companies and all the leaders of the company must be marched through cities by shame nuns whilst citizens are permitted to throw rotten food and excrement at them. Anything short of this would just be the cost of doing business.
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#15Well it never worked, nothing of value was lost. Although, a little concerning in the light of many Mozilla's recent recruitment decisions and especially AI shilling focus
IIRC geizhals.eu (price comparison site) respects it. They are probably the only ones, though :D
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#16I understand that many people here have a bad taste of Mozilla's recent actions in many aspects. But the reality here is that this is at worst removing something that almost nobody respected. It was based on honor system and even in Switzerland they do have random inspections for honor system. Browsers never had any enforcement of this feature. And ironically it was used as additional data point of tracking privacy aware people who went out of the way to enable it.
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#17Browsers need a "keep my cookies" button next to the url bar, separate cookie jar per domain, and then by default, delete all the cookies when you close the window. No EU cookie prompts would be needed, no "this feature does not work without third party cookies, no DNT, no nothing... silently accept all the cookies, and then delete them. (and other persistent storage too).
Want to stay logged in? Press the "keep the cookies for this domain" button by the url bar, and a separate cookie jar will be made just for example.org and persist there.
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#18Deprecated in 2018. Removed in 2024. That doesn't seem like a timeline to take anybody by surprise, for a thing that was used to do the exact opposite of its purpose.
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#19Next thing you know Thunderbird will remove the "Do Not Spam" feature
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#20The relevant context is that Mozilla is now an adtech company. Reuter's coverage over noyb complaint over illegal "PET" adtech: https://www.reuters.com/technology/mozilla-hit-with-privacy-...
Mozilla buying out an adtech company: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-anonym-raising-t...
Mozilla has also been lending its credibility and whitewashing Meta's "PET" measuring standards at W3C. More on this, from Mozilla: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/privacy-preserving-attri...