“Do Not Track” had a lofty goal: You know, it's a simple check box on every Browser 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.
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, Mozilla Firefox, Apple's Safari, Edge and the Internet Explore of Microsoft. You can tick the box if it makes you feel safer but it doesn't actually help you online. It is completely misleading.
The truth is that Do Not Track is used for monitoring persons. If you have the feature enabled, you give an extra element to advertisers, who see that you care about security and serve you privacy-related ads (for example).
So, as shown, this checkbox is totally useless. Such as he remarked DuckDuckGo, Apple removes this option from Safari and we expect other browsers to follow Apple's lead. As W3 says, DNT request header support has stopped on 17 January of 2019.
"Do not Track" is said to act as a placebo and mislead internet users.
Η ιστορία για το Do not Track ξεκίνησε από την Microsoft που ενεργοποίησε την επιλογή στον Internet Explorer 10 από προεπιλογή, προκαλώντας τις περισσότερες ιστοσελίδες να την αγνοήσουν. Το αστείο είναι ότι η ίδια η Microsoft δεν σεβάστηκε ποτέ τη ρύθμιση saying that "Because there is not yet a common understanding of how to interpret DNT, Microsoft services do not currently respond to signals from theletterof browsing".
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