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chinhodado on Aug 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox Web...

Just like in IE/Edge, the "Do not track" setting used to be enabled by default, then it became disabled by default, and for good reason. The argument is, if it is enabled by default, sites will not bothered to support it since it was not something that the user turned on explicitly and was aware of.

AndrewCHM on Aug 10, 2017 [–]

Tracking Protection isn't Do Not Track. Tracking Protection in Firefox blocks web trackers

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-pbm

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