DuckDuckGo reminds ignorant users that many websites ignore browsers' Do Not Track privacy requests

guest · Feb 6, 2019

DuckDuckGo reminds ignorant users that many websites ignore browsers' Do Not Track privacy requests
February 6, 2019
https://betanews.com/2019/02/06/duckduckgo-do-not-track-research/

If you are of that mind, you may have enabled the Do Not Track (DNT) setting in your web browser in the hope that it will stop the websites you visit from tracking your online activities. Bad news: it probably makes no difference whatsoever.

This might be something you knew already, but research by privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo -- which famously does respect DNT requests -- found than more than three-quarters of people were not aware of that that many sites ignore DNT settings.

[...] the "Do Not Track setting is only a voluntary signal sent to websites, which websites don't have to respect".
The research found that nearly a quarter of people have DNT enabled in their web browser, but an alarming proportion were unaware that it could be making no difference to privacy at all. As DuckDuckGo puts it:

It can be alarming to realize that Do Not Track is about as foolproof as putting a sign on your front lawn that says "Please, don't look into my house" while all of your blinds remain open. In fact, most major tech companies, including Google, Facebook, and Twitter, do not respect the Do Not Track setting when you visit and use their sites -- a fact of which 77.3 percent (±3.6) of US adults overall weren't aware.
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