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   Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 22:05:01 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

   The #W3C publishes ethical guidelines on almost the same day that #Mozilla decides to remove "Do Not Track" from their browser. Oh, the irony :)

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     Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 22:26:11 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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     IMHO: The ethical guidelines that the W3C has published reads like a list of things they know are wrong but they let it happen anyway. The web won't be saved by nicely asking for stakeholders to please, please be a bit nicer. Again, IMHO.

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     Juan (reidrac@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 23:28:21 JST Juan

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     @jwildeboer I would say... on the same day that #Mozilla decides to remove "Do Not Track" because everybody ignores it.

     I know Mozilla may be a lost cause, but you post made them look worse than they are, at least on this topic 😬

     And you're right, wildly ironic 😅

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     Joe Brockmeier (@jzb) (jzb@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 01:58:40 JST Joe Brockmeier (@jzb)

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     @jwildeboer DNT was a bad idea from the start. Surprised it took this long to throw in the towel.

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     Joe Brockmeier (@jzb) (jzb@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 02:20:12 JST Joe Brockmeier (@jzb)

     @jwildeboer The problem with DNF was always that it was a "please don't do this" and not a technical barrier to doing whatever tracking the user was trying to opt out of.

     It was obvious from day one that it wouldn't be honored. Asking the same industry that has conducted a decades-long campaign to thwart every actual barrier to preventing pop-ups and trackers "pretty please don't track" is silly.

     I wrote about it at the time they proposed it, but I can no longer find the article.