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LEGACY Privacy Badger for Firefox SEE README
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Do not force-enable the DNT header #767

Open fstirlitz opened 8 years ago

fstirlitz commented 8 years ago

Each time it is activated, Privacy Badger sets the value of the privacy.donottrackheader.enabled setting to true. There is no way to disable this behaviour.

The DNT header is a completely ineffective mechanism of protecting privacy, as it relies on the goodwill of the server operator not to collect identifying information, which is prone to abuse (compare RFC 3514). It is not (as was hoped) backed by any legislation, in the United States or elsewhere. Even worse, the DNT header is counterproductive as it provides one more bit of identifying information to malicious actors.

DNT is a farce in which I do not wish to participate. Please do not force me to.

RGBD commented 8 years ago

Hi. I am also worried about effectiveness of that feature. It would be great to have an option to disallow trackers regardless their presense in DNT whitelist.

hollunder commented 8 years ago

I also noticed that DNT got auto-enabled all the time and finally tracked it down to privacy badger. The DNT setting is by default exposed to the user and privacy badger blatantly ignores the users wishes by re-enabling it every time firefox starts. This behaviour is just not acceptable.

I have stopped using privacy badger until this is fixed. Please respect user wishes and stop messing with this setting.