[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 mikeperry):

 I guess the long and short of it is that I could be more easily convinced
 that DNT was worthwhile if I could be ensured that the regulatory
 nightmare that seems to be waiting to descend around it is just for show
 to ensure that Google, Facebook, et all are convinced that suffering
 through said regulation would be worse than the inner-most circle of hell.
 You know, that one where satan is half-burried in ice n' shit. Then maybe
 they'd be convinced these problems were worth solving with engineering and
 cryptography instead.

 But the problem for me is that I see that outcome as unlikely. Instead, I
 see endless policy recommendations followed by regulation, bureaucratic
 waste, and eventual overseas downward leveling as the far more likely
 outcome of DNT.

 Unless you're about to tell me the whole New World Order thing is actually
 going to work out and provide the world with One World Government and a
 uniform and just set of laws for all (including robust DNT regulation)?
 Because my money is against that one, too, at the moment.

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