4 comments

  • Bender 21 hours ago ago

    Just about any site can use any data you provide them for anything regardless of what permission one gives. Asking them to do or not do something has the same effect as asking a mugger to not mug them. At best one would get a chuckle.

    The partial exception would be if one has a mutually binding contract with said company and that company is made painfully aware that one has multiple law firms and infinite resources to go after them. They might adhere to the contract for a while until the company gets big and some new middle management want to take risks to look good for their management which means breaking ones contract behind their back.

  • stop50 a day ago ago

    There was such an standard, but it was ignored, because people don't want to be tracked, which is diametral to the targets of companies to get as much data as possible to sell you stuck you never need

    • streptomycin 21 hours ago ago

      This doesn't answer the question though. Like okay, everyone ignored "do not track". So the correct response is to make an even more annoying system that can also be ignored just as easily as "do not track"?

      And before someone says the new system has a law behind it so it can't be ignored as easily as "do not track"... that is irrelevant to the discussion of "built into browser" vs "each website implements its own custom thing".

  • dtgm93 a day ago ago

    "do not track" is just that

    But everyone ignored it and it just provided additional entropy for identifying you!