Use Global Privacy Control instead of Do Not Track

Alex313031 / Mercury

Firefox fork with compiler optimizations and patches from Librewolf, Waterfox, and GNU IceCat.

https://thorium.rocks/mercury

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Use Global Privacy Control instead of Do Not Track #20

Closed jobbautista9 closed 9 months ago

jobbautista9 commented 1 year ago

I noticed that DNT is being sent by default:

https://github.com/Alex313031/Mercury/blob/27462b5ba305d609aa870843da94cd3e118a4ddc/app/profile/firefox.js#L1522

I don't really prefer having such a header enabled by default (it should be left to the user IMHO), but if you want to send by default, you should use its successor GPC instead of DNT which is pretty much obsolete and useless.

The relevant pref is privacy.globalprivacycontrol.enabled

Alex313031 commented 1 year ago

@jobbautista9 Done!

jobbautista9 commented 1 year ago

Thanks!

privacy.globalprivacycontrol.functionality.enabled also needs to be enabled, forgot about that too. Otherwise sites using GPC wouldn't be able to detect your GPC signal. See https://global-privacy-control.glitch.me/ for a test reference.

Alex313031 commented 1 year ago

@jobbautista9 OK Fixed! See latest release > https://github.com/Alex313031/Mercury/releases/tag/v.115.0.0