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Diff. between built in Do No Track and DoNotTrack Me Add-On

Berryracer

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As we know Firefox has the option to tell sites that you do not want to be tracked.

So in that case, why is DoNotTrackMe needed?

And if one installed DoNotTrackme, should he disable the built in feature in Firefox or leave it enabled?
 
Somehow I doubt most sites will actually be obeying either DoNotTrack method. If you want to not be tracked you need to completely disable cookies and do all of your browsing through a VPN or TOR.

Or you could do what Richard Stallman does: "For personal reasons, he generally does not actively browse the web from his computer; rather, he uses wget and reads the fetched pages from his e-mail mailbox"
 
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lagokc said:
Somehow I doubt most sites will actually be obeying either DoNotTrack method. If you want to not be tracked you need to completely disable cookies and do all of your browsing through a VPN or TOR.

Or you could do what Richard Stallman does: "For personal reasons, he generally does not actively browse the web from his computer; rather, he uses wget and reads the fetched pages from his e-mail mailbox"
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well I use MVPS hosts file + DoNotTrackMe + Google Opt opt browser extension + AdBlock Plus

I don't want to decrease my browsing experience by disabling cookies so for me this is the best setup with minimal disadvantages
 
Setting this optional and non-enforceable flag to on, just gives more suspicion to websites that you have something to hide. 🙂
 
I don't care for the firefox 'option' because I get no confirmation that it is actually doing anything. DoNotTrackMe actually shows me what it is blocking, which seems to include what other add-ons I have tried are doing, so I use only it now.

It is not blocking everything, and I know that. But it does a good job of giving the impression it is blocking a good bit, and I am good with that (+AdBlock Edge).
 
ketchup79 said:
I don't care for the firefox 'option' because I get no confirmation that it is actually doing anything.
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It doesn't do anything. It's a request to sites not to track. Sites can honor it or not, or say they honored it, and do what they want anyway. There's no recourse for the user if they lied, and you likely wouldn't know it anyway. Ad networks need to be treated like the criminal enterprises they are, and actively blocked.
 
lxskllr said:
It doesn't do anything. It's a request to sites not to track. Sites can honor it or not, or say they honored it, and do what they want anyway. There's no recourse for the user if they lied, and you likely wouldn't know it anyway. Ad networks need to be treated like the criminal enterprises they are, and actively blocked.
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Someone should setup a firefox extension that detects sites that track despite the do not track flag being enabled, then uses all the computers with the extension to launch DDoS attacks against noncompliant sites. :biggrin:

They could call it "No, Seriously, Do Not Track"
 
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lagokc said:
Someone should setup a firefox extension that detects sites that track despite the do not track flag being enabled, then uses all the computers with the extension to launch DDoS attacks against noncompliant sites. :biggrin:

They could call it "No, Seriously, Do Not Track"
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LOL good idea 🙂
 
Use either one, it doesn't matter really. I'm pretty sure having both won't stop the header from being sent to the web server.

Advertisements pay for most of the services you use everyday. It's what we "pay", for getting services for free. I'm no fan of getting tracked and i do my bit to keep myself as private as possible. However i 'm not blind to the fact that; "There is no such thing as a free lunch".
 
smakme7757 said:
Use either one, it doesn't matter really. I'm pretty sure having both won't stop the header from being sent to the web server.

Advertisements pay for most of the services you use everyday. It's what we "pay", for getting services for free. I'm no fan of getting tracked and i do my bit to keep myself as private as possible. However i 'm not blind to the fact that; "There is no such thing as a free lunch".
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you're right because despite my setup, I still get a few tracking cookies according to SUPERAntiSpyware 🙄
 
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