Same thing has been suggested a few years ago and it went nowhere.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200613155957/https://consoledo...

A GLOBAL do not track on the browsers works largely cause the target is all the websites being browsed and the tracking associated with it for advertising purposes. However telemetry is altogether a different thing, blocking it by default can be one idea, however using one standard variable to express the intent for all the tools is not practically viable

The most useful part of this page is the list of optout commands to stick in my shellrc.

Is anyone maintaining a more complete list of those?

just sinkhole the domains

https://dpaste.com/E7RZ34MVD

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

The reason browser's DNT header failed is that they don't want to user to turn off tracking by default

The reason they will not adopt common env is that because they do not want it to be easy to turn off

> We just want local software.

You just want local software to...send commands to your Cloud providers?

It worked so well on the browser already

I thought it would be a sh script to automatically set the flags for all known do not track env vars.

Given the URL and list of different opt-outs I thought this was going to be a shell script to set all these for you. In fact, I've just had an idea...

I don't think there is any way to stop people from tracking you. Technically speaking, you can pretty much always be tracked. Even if you eliminated all third party requests you could still be tracked. Downloads, logins, queries, etc all can be tracked. Virtually all software now has the "continuously upgrade to the latest version" bullshit so you are tracked every time you open the app. Even if you turn it off, they stop the app from working until you upgrade, so they force you to be tracked.

I think the only solution is to make it law that you can't track anyone for any reason without their consent, and can't sell consensual tracking data without an additional consent agreement. It would be a huge blow to the advertising industry, so it will never be made law, but it's the only thing that would work.