The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Track

Posted Jul 22, 2020 20:29 UTC (Wed) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Track by Wol
Parent article: The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Track

> I don't want to be bomvarded with "you've bought one, how about another"

I once bought a new shower head. For *months* afterwards I was getting ads for other shower heads, like I was some sort of showerhead collector.

...the reason DNT failed is that there was zero economic incentive for advertisers/etc to respect it.

(and by that, I mean there were no legal penalties if it was not respected)