It means nothing “do not track” never worked.
That is exactly the reason for this change. It often didn’t work and probably makes you easier to fingerprint.
The new thing is the same but worse.
This option is built on top of the Global Privacy Control (GPC). GPC is respected by increasing numbers of sites and enforced with legislation in some regions.
Sounds like Mozilla at least think it’s better
The same Mozilla whose primary source of income is Google?
As opposed to… your generous donations?
That doesn’t absolve them.
With the feature removed, websites can act like they didn’t even go against my wishes.
There’s nothing to “absolve.” Feature was worthless.
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If you wish to ask websites to respect your privacy, you can use the “Tell websites not to sell or share my data” setting. This option is built on top of the Global Privacy Control (GPC). GPC is respected by increasing numbers of sites and enforced with legislation in some regions.
So is the difference that DNT was asking for no tracking at all while this GPC setting allows for tracking data to be created but not forwarded to third parties? That seems reasonable, not all “tracking” is malicious. Though I wonder why, if DNT isn’t respected, any other vaguely similar setting would be.
Some company got sued or smth for ignoring gpc and it was ruled to legally count as opting out of data sharing
