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This is one of the first ideas people tried, more than a decade ago before GDPR was even a thing. The Do Not Track header was proposed in 2009 and implemented only in Firefox. The problem is that advertisers don't want this solution, because they want you to accept all cookies and a single browser-wide config setting makes denying way too easy. so they just ignored the setting, and nothing ever came of it.



Hmm, that's too bad. I guess we'll just have to make the browsers programmatically defeat the user-hostile websites!




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