Comment by ☕️ protoc0l
Re: "Mozilla removes the 'do not track' setting"
Not really.
If a cop catches you running a red light, you get a ticket and points on your license. Theres at least the _potential_ for enforcement and punishment.
If a platform ignores your "do not track" request, nothing happens. It literally cannot be enforced on the client's end.
2024-12-10 · 1 year ago
10 Later Comments ↓
🦂 zzo38 · 2024-12-10 at 22:48:
I agree with removing the "do not track" setting, because they should make a more general setting instead, to add arbitrary request headers (this also includes other things such as Accept-Language) and response headers (e.g. you could disable some features by setting the Content-Security-Policy, or to add X-Content-Type-Options), and to delete request and response headers (e.g. Referer, If-Modified-Since, Cookie, etc), instead of being limited to only one possibility.
🚀 stack [OP] · 2024-12-11 at 01:03:
Agreed, not much of a loss.
👻 darkghost · 2024-12-11 at 02:13:
It was never going to work.
"Do not track? How are we supposed to monetize our users? They won't pay for this dross with money. Oh it's voluntary? Ha! Not doing that."
By `thanks` to JS, Cookies, CORS, etc
everything that enabled or disabled in modern web browser by default - means `nothing changed` for me.
🦋 CarloMonte · 2024-12-11 at 13:10:
This technology is way out of control for most participants. For the user an INCOMPATIBLE, clean restart would be nice: only TLS, URLs, hypertext, CSS, inline data (images etc.) and links.
No scripting, no cookies (we have URLs for that), no embedding, no client-side disclosures (screen resolution, referrals and what not), another PKI concept etc..
Also in dire need is a fair monetization platform. I would be happy to pay, but not to subscribe for sites I visit once in a while. I would even enjoy some high quality advertisments, as were seen in the better newspapers of days past.
This won't happen any time soon, but is clearly doable.
NOTE about the PKI: a new concept is way beyond me; yet, TOFU, the web of trust (GPG), SSH keys all show that alternatives are possible.
It should be possible to quickly set a secure intranet server without having to pay or disclose its existance to third parties (the PKI)!
🦋 CarloMonte · 2024-12-11 at 17:01:
almost. incompatible is here the key. i doubt that a smooth transition is possible.
🚀 stack [OP] · 2024-12-11 at 18:25:
Is loading "like ass" bad?
🚀 stack [OP] · 2024-12-11 at 18:58:
I suppose the art of the bidet is not universally adopted!
👻 darkghost · 2024-12-11 at 22:07:
@hansbrix Oh great! NOW you tell me!
☕️ tenno-seremel · 2025-03-07 at 08:50:
Judging by latest news, “not tracking” is not what Mozilla is into anymore 🤷
Original Post
Mozilla removes the 'do not track' setting — Citing that "many websites ignore this feature" Mozilla removed it. Many drivers ignore stop lights! Lets remove them too. At least you could see that I did not want to be tracked... Alrhough that probably made me more interesting. [https link] In all likelihood this makes no difference except it does show that we're going in the wrong direction...