Hold on there. These are two different beasts. DNT is "please don't track me" and of course it won't work.
In fact, it's worse. DNT, if set either way, is another pure bit of browser entropy; it actually *assists* certain forms of tracking, because it can be expected to remain invariant between visits of a given browser/user. This is just one of the things making me think the "web" needs a total re-boot to redesign for security from the boots-up. Servers shouldn't require user-agents to know how to treat visitors. Scripting is useful for a rich experience but should be more sand-boxable (ideally, scripts can be sandboxed to their position in the DOM tree!) and tightly permission'd. Canvas and other elements should behave deterministically; this should be part of browser test-suites. Browsers should be allowed cache fonts but not disclose to the server whether they have a font in their cache or not. DNT was another nail in the coffin. Either a browser can be tracked by design, or it can't. On 03/03/15 10:19, rysiek wrote:
Dnia wtorek, 24 lutego 2015 21:23:29 grarpamp pisze:
After all, adblock isn't going to stop the ads. DNT isn't going to stop the cookies.
Hold on there. These are two different beasts. DNT is "please don't track me" and of course it won't work. Adblock is "I am not letting this through, deal with it" and has much more merit and chances of actually stopping stuff from getting to you.
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