Remove Do Not Track preference - Githubissues

brave / brave-browser

Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.

https://brave.com

Mozilla Public License 2.0

17.67k stars 2.31k forks source link

Remove Do Not Track preference #32371

Open arthuredelstein opened 1 year ago

arthuredelstein commented 1 year ago

Description

We are proposing to remove the Do Not Track preference from Brave Browser, because:

it has failed: https://github.com/w3c/dnt/blob/master/README.md
opting in to DNT adds fingerprinting entropy
we support GPC, another standard that is more promising

Spec (proposed)

Remove the DNT setting
Remove all references in the UI to DNT
Ensure that the browser continues to not send the DNT signal by default (the status quo); users that previously had DNT enabled via the toggle will have it disabled

kimg45 commented 2 months ago

Yes please, other browsers like Safari already don't have an option in the UI for it.