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The problem is that ticking the DNT box will probably have absolutely no effect. At this point we can safely consider it dead. It barely ever saw any adoption, it was easily and "legally" ignored anyway, Apple dropped support for it more than one year ago, and even the W3C DNT working group was dissolved.

Now we have GDPR which is legally enforceable (officially) so we could use the technical implementation that can automate applying it.




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