“Will Chrome, Edge, and Other Privacy-Focused Browsers follow this move?”
And it’s not The Onion.
title makes it look like firefox is just removing yet another security feature as part of its enshittification process, but reading the article it looks like it makes sense
- not a lot of websites respect dnt
- it might serve as an identifier, i think
removing
yet anothersecurityfeaturetheatre.DNT was always just an honor system, and can be used as another data point for fingerprinting.
Not bothered by the loss. Like others have stated, it can be used to track/profile you, but far more importantly, it was a non-legally binding “pretty please, do not track me, okay?” Request. Based on literally how honestly the server was setup or if the site admins felt like respecting it. 0% guarantees.
I have not been bothering to enable this for close to a decade in all my machines and on those I support.
Always found it weird how it was so pushed in tons of privacy guides or in privacy tips. It’s as if they were just parroting each other without actually thinking why it would or not work at all.
Always found it weird how it was so pushed in tons of privacy guides or in privacy tips. It’s as if they were just parroting each other without actually thinking why it would or not work at all.
Welcome to the internet, where blogspam is pushed to make $$ without fact checking.
Propaganda article - they suggest moving to fucking brave browser. This was shared on the subreddit as well.
The do not track isn’t followed by any websites and can identify you anyway. Yeah good call OP, let’s ditch firefox for fucking brave