Why Do-Not-Track browser settings are useless and what to do about it

[joey_bladb]

@doctorow

The long fight over Do-Not-Track followed a predictable trajectory: a detailed, meaningful pro-privacy system was subverted by big business, and then published as a “standard” that offered virtually no privacy protections.

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