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title makes it look like firefox is just removing yet another security feature as part of its enshittification process, but reading the article it looks like it makes sense
removing ~~yet another~~ security ~~feature~~ theatre.
DNT was always just an honor system, and can be used as another data point for fingerprinting.
Yeah, I'm not too mad about this. It's a good idea, but without legal weight behind it, it ultimately failed. Ideally GDPR and similar regulations would provide something similar, so I can set my preference once and every site would be required to respect it. That would be much better that the current situation, which is that I am forced to navigate every asshole site's custom cookie notice. Each one's a little different, and some of them break certain browser configurations. It's a UX nightmare. This is probably by design — annoy users into submission. Because nobody in their right mind would ever click "allow" if it were not the easier choice.