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Is asking not to sell data the same as asking not to track it?

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[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unfortunately, the old Do Not Track setting worked on the honor system. Since when have advertisers ever worked on the honor system?

[–] ramsorge@discuss.online 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not like any website ever took that “request” seriously.

[–] PseudorandomNoise@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Once Microsoft enabled it by default in IE/Edge that was the end of it. The whole point was to be an opt-in.

Ironically it was also used as another data point for fingerprinting users. It was a nice idea in theory but it just wasn’t gonna work.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah let’s bash on Firefox again for some reason while ignoring everyone else

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

They're the best option available.

They're fucking up the reasons why.

Welcome to every year for the last twenty years.

Its already a bait and switch in that it was only ever a request and I very much doubt any corporate website ever listened to that request.