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Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically learns to block invisible trackers.
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Do not send "Do not track" requests by default #2950

Open Lenni-builder opened 5 months ago

Lenni-builder commented 5 months ago

"Do not track" requests can be used to fingerprint your browser, because very few people use that feature. Most sites that don't fingerprint you with it completely ignore it anyways.

ghostwords commented 5 months ago

Hello and thanks for opening an issue!

If the privacy cost is justified by the privacy benefit, then we should continue to send the signal.

It may be that Global Privacy Control replaces Do Not Track well enough, in which case we should retire[^1] DNT and continue with GPC alone.

[^1]: If it no longer makes sense to have something on by default, we should then remove that feature from Privacy Badger.

ghostwords commented 5 months ago

German court bans LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals

-- https://stackdiary.com/german-court-bans-linkedin-from-ignoring-do-not-track-signals/ (HN thread)

sillyjaybird commented 1 month ago

I'll continue to monitor this issue.

ghostwords commented 2 weeks ago

Transcend Consent Management's default config affords more privacy protections to DNT than GPC.

-- https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo-privacy-extension/issues/1417#issuecomment-2179373416