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Re: [tor-bugs] #5501 [TorBrowserButton]: enable Do-Not-Track DNT by default
#5501: enable Do-Not-Track DNT by default
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Reporter: cypherpunks | Owner: mikeperry
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: TorBrowserButton | Version:
Keywords: | Parent:
Points: | Actualpoints:
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Comment(by pde):
Hopefully DNT in TBB is a moot point: DNT was conceived as a privacy
measure that should achieve some meaningful protections for people who
find tools like Tor and !NoScript/RequestPolicy too burdensome to use for
their daily browsing.
The way you can think of it is like this: before DNT, if you deleted a 3rd
party tracker's cookies, or blocked it with a blacklist, and it found a
way around those measures you took, it could claim that it hadn't realised
you didn't want to be tracked. Maybe you just did these things randomly.
But with DNT in place, if a third party tracking company keeps setting
cookies, or using supercookies, or fingeprinting, that may have legal
consequences. Nobody is anticipating legal consequences for first-party
sites that you log into (DNT won't affect gmail or facebook as a first
party), although we may try to get systems like Apache to keep fewer logs
out of the box when it is set.
More detail in this (somewhat out of date) post:
!https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/02/what-does-track-do-not-track-mean
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