EDIT I love the dead “Learn more” link.

  • @[email protected]
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    711 year ago

    I’d rather a “you can’t track me” button rather than a “pwetty please pweeeease don’t track me” button.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen
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      681 year ago

      I just want a single button that says “Fuck Off” and it makes all the trackers fuck off.

    • Maeve
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      151 year ago

      I’ll see and raise you: it should be default, without an opt-in.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        The reason it’s ignored by 99.999% of sites it’s that it is a default on Microsoft browsers. If it wasn’t a default maybe there would have been a chance that sites respected that choice (1% of users vs 50%)

    • @[email protected]
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      211 year ago

      Heads up OP, on Windows if you press Windows+Shift+S, it opens the snipping tool which lets you select a portion of your desktop to screenshot. Saves it to your clipboard too.

    • Hal-5700XOP
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      1 year ago

      They need to fix the UI in Settings on desktop. So much wasted space.

      • @[email protected]
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        461 year ago

        Sorry to say, but that design is quite intentional. If you stretch webpages too wide, it makes it difficult to read any texts, since finding the start of the next line is rather challenging then.

        And if they’d re-layout it to place multiple settings elements next to each other, that would add quite a lot of visual complexity, it would make it harder to explain to people where they find a particular setting and well, just more effort for designing/maintaining that page.

  • qevlarr
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    441 year ago

    When are they rolling out that all websites that ignore this setting, receive a huge fine? Without that, this is nothing

  • @Linus_Torvalds
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    171 year ago

    I am sceptical. The paradox of ‘DoNotTrack’ is, that this setting is used to track you; it gets ignored and, as most users do not have it enabled, makes you more unique.

    Someone said, that this new setting is legally enforcable in California. We shall see how it applies to the rest of the world.

    • Franzia
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      51 year ago

      Interesting, I didn’t know the DoNotTrack signal was set that way 💀 lmao

  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    Can someone explain to me why browsers allow the tracking in the first place?

    Why isn’t there a possibility to turn info gathering off completely?

    Like, those instances need the browser to comply in sending the data in the first place, right? Can’t the browser just send “you do not have permission to receive this info” each time they ask?

    I get that websites need to know your browser version in order to show things properly. But all the other data they gather isn’t really necessary, is it? Why would they need to know my computer version for example? And all the other things they use for fingerprinting.

  • Doctor xNo
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    31 year ago

    Reminds me of this plugin I used to have that intercepted most tracking and information requests to cookies, and instead sent back a cryptocurrency address with instructions that would automatically enable them to get the info they were asking for if they paid a preset minimum amount to the address first…

    Seeing as all those trackers and alike are scrapers and automated headless scripts, it shouldn’t surprise you that wallet never saw any transactions. 😅 The idea might not have been the best thought through, but the idea was nice and at least it didn’t sent out anything else anymore… 😬

    • Jay
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      01 year ago

      Ya it seems they just reworded it… that setting used to say “Send websites a “Do Not Track” signal that you don’t want to be tracked”