Do Not Track the tale that was unveiled

“Do Not Track” had a lofty goal: You know, it's a simple check box in every program s on the web that tells the websites you connect not to track you.

The operation seems to be using too many, but there is a problem: Websites are not interested.
Do Not Track
You should know that the "Do not Track" option does not prevent you from following the websites. It just sends a message every time you link to a webpage asking it not to follow you. But most web sites ignore the message, and that is not going to change. At the moment there does not seem to be any "penalty" for web pages ignoring Do Not Track, so why respect it?

"Do not Track" has been around for years. The option is used by Google Chrome, the , ο Safari της Apple, ο Edge και ο Internet Explorer της . You can tick the box if it makes you feel safer but it doesn't actually help you online. It is completely misleading.

Η αλήθεια είναι ότι το Do Not Track χρησιμοποιείται για την παρακολούθηση ατόμων. Αν έχετε ενεργοποιήσει τη λειτουργία, δίνετε ένα επιπλέον στοιχείο στους διαφημιζόμενους, που βλέπουν ότι σας ενδιαφέρει η ασφάλεια και σας σερβίρουν privacy-related (for example).

So, as shown, this checkbox is totally useless. Such as he remarked DuckDuckGo, Apple is removing this option from Safari, and we expect other program makers to do the same to follow Apple's lead. As W3 mentions, h για το DNT header stopped on 17 January of 2019.

"Do not Track" is said to act as a placebo and mislead internet users.

The story about Do Not Track was started by Microsoft, which enabled Internet Explorer 10 by default, causing most web sites to ignore it. The funny thing is that Microsoft itself never respected the setting saying that "Because there is not yet a common understanding of how DNT is interpreted, Microsoft services are not currently responding to browser signals."

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