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dgellow 56 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Every Fucking Website (2020)

Do not track has been used by ad companies to track users, it’s one of the datapoints that can be used to identify your fingerprint

frollogaston 56 days ago [–]

The idea is that it'd be illegal to do so. Same as how with GDPR it's illegal to track users who denied tracking, even though the "don't track me" setting is a cookie and nothing technical stops them from doing fingerprinting.

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