Mozilla removes Do Not Track setting from Firefox and suggests an alternative

Mozilla has removed support for Do Not Track from Firefox, with the company stating that it was a setting that was largely ignored by websites anyway. More than this, Mozilla believes that Do Not Track sometimes served to reduce privacy, rather than increasing it. The suggestion for affected users is to start using options within Global Privacy Control (GPC) which are legally enforced in some countries, and far more widely respected by websites regardless of legislative requirements. See also: The Do Not Track setting was something of a utopian idea, and one that proved largely ineffective. Firefox was the first… [Continue Reading]