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		quickthrower2 on Aug 26, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The rise of user-hostile software > At the time of writing, this blog collects anonymized data with Google Analytics. Don’t want to send it? Have your browser send a Do Not Track request and no data will leave this page. It takes an if statement to do this, not a month of engineering work. How is this consistent with the message to not be hostile?

dend on Aug 26, 2021 [–]

OP here. You have an explicit option to opt out, no gimmicks.

pseudalopex on Aug 26, 2021 | | [–]

Few sites respect Do Not Track. Some even use it for tracking. So you force people to opt in to other tracking to opt out of yours.

quickthrower2 on Aug 26, 2021 | | [–]

Is this default ON designed for the users needs? Or the developers?

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