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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 nickm):
So Mike, I tend to agree with you that it isn't likely that DNT will
actually do very much good.[*] Where I diverge from you is that I don't
see that it *costs* us much either, unless we lose our minds and actually
endorse it rather than explaining how little we expect from it.
In other words, I think the unlikely benefits are on par with the trivial
costs here, and so it might be doing in spite of the general policy-
headedness of the idea.
I'd say maybe talk it over with Wendy and/or Tom at mozilla, and see
whether they can convince you that there's a nonstupid angle here.
[*] In fact, I suspect that it's meant as a covering action so that the
trackers can say of 90% [**] of their customers, "Well, Alice here
_didn't_ click the DNT button. Therefore whatever we do to her data is as
legal and ethical as can be, since she never objected."
[**] I'd be surprised if more than 10-20% of users will enable Do-not-
track. Only something like 20% of US people are on the do-not-call list,
and telemarketing is far more obvious and intrusive than web tracking.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5501#comment:8>
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