[tor-bugs] #5501 [TorBrowserButton]: enable Do-Not-Track DNT by default

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#5501: enable Do-Not-Track DNT by default
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 Reporter:  cypherpunks       |          Owner:  mikeperry
     Type:  enhancement       |         Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal            |      Milestone:           
Component:  TorBrowserButton  |        Version:           
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Comment(by pde):

 Hopefully DNT in TBB is a moot point: DNT was conceived as a privacy
 measure that should achieve some meaningful protections for people who
 find tools like Tor and !NoScript/RequestPolicy too burdensome to use for
 their daily browsing.

 The way you can think of it is like this: before DNT, if you deleted a 3rd
 party tracker's cookies, or blocked it with a blacklist, and it found a
 way around those measures you took, it could claim that it hadn't realised
 you didn't want to be tracked.  Maybe you just did these things randomly.

 But with DNT in place, if a third party tracking company keeps setting
 cookies, or using supercookies, or fingeprinting, that may have legal
 consequences.  Nobody is anticipating legal consequences for first-party
 sites that you log into (DNT won't affect gmail or facebook as a first
 party), although we may try to get systems like Apache to keep fewer logs
 out of the box when it is set.

 More detail in this (somewhat out of date) post:
 !https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/02/what-does-track-do-not-track-mean

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