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Mozilla's Do Not Track header appears in nightly Firefox builds, does nothing
If you're into pointless displays of solidarity, the latest nightly builds of Firefox 4 beta 11 now include the option of turning on the Do Not Track (DNT) header. With Google's launch of its Do Not Track extension last week, this now means that we're only waiting on IE9's Tracking Protection Lists.While this change to Firefox successfully sends the DNT HTTP header with every request, it's up to websites and advertising companies to respond to the header in a suitable fashion -- i.e. by not sending out the normal tracking cookies. There are currently no known sites that acknowledge the new header.
Still, if you want to turn it on -- beardies unite!! -- you can find the option under Tools > Options > Advanced, in the General tab. If enough Firefox users start using the DNT header it will not go unnoticed! We can start a movement! Liberte! Egalite! DNT!
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Subscribe to commentswinecurmudgeonFeb 1st 2011 10:01AM
And what's wrong with pointless displays of solidarity?
Sebastian AnthonyFeb 1st 2011 9:44AM
@winecurmudgeon Nothing, comrade.
ScraynFeb 2nd 2011 2:25AM
I'd rather see Firefox adopt NoScript's DNT headers, hopefully setting a trend to have just a single set of headers. The reason I want that to happen is only because NoScript implemented theirs first.
This way, we don't get eleventy billion different headers that servers have to check for. It's completely counter-productive to have all this varied clutter for the same exact end result.
Sebastian AnthonyFeb 2nd 2011 5:16AM
@Scrayn I didn't know NoScript also used HTTP headers -- does that mean they've been adopted by some websites? Or is it just a theoretical thing too?
ScraynFeb 2nd 2011 2:13PM
@Sebastian Anthony It's most likely a theoretical as well, considering it hasn't been out for public consumption for very long.
According to Giorgio Maone on Mozilla's Bug Tracker, AdBlock Plus has also adopted that DNT proposal. He also mentioned that what NoScript & ABP are using was proposed from www.donottrack.us - So we both learned something out of this!
Sebastian AnthonyFeb 2nd 2011 4:02PM
@Scrayn Well, there ya go :)
Thanks for coming back!