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Comment by olalonde | Hacker News Reader

I honestly don't mind. The popups have a far more negative impact on my life. If I actually mind, which is very rare, I just open an Incognito window.

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We used to have a header for this but the tracking companies refused to play ball.

  DNT: 0

I honestly appreciate this bit of twisted propaganda. It's like you put up a barbed-wire fence with a gate in it, and people objected to the barbed-wire fence, so you put up a 1meter brick wall that people have to climb over. Whenever people complain about the wall, you say "Hey, the fence had a gate in it! But nobody wanted to play ball..."

Who put up the fence and who are the people in this analogy? I'm really confused.

It was the tracking advertisers who wouldn't play ball, so are you saying people are unfairly putting barriers in the way of tracking advertisers?

The evil bit, but meant non ironically.

But incognito will not save you. Your browser can be fingerprinted even in incognito. That's why gdpr exists. Also it's strange how your default proposed flag is in favor of tracking. Why not have a flag that is defaulted to notrack:true instead?

Sigh. Because OP doesn’t give a fuck. It’s right there.

You’re proposing DNT flag. We’ve been there, done that, it failed.

Pragmatically, the opposite flag has a better chance of being adopted, because it aligns incentives - both parties get what they want: the website can track me (and really: some people don’t give a fuck and don’t need lectures on the wrongness of their ways), I get less annoying UI.

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