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Posted by RubyGuy 20 hours ago

Do_not_track(donottrack.sh)
391 points | 121 commentspage 3
ivanjermakov 15 hours ago|
If solution was real, it would be DO_TRACK=1, not the inverse.
victorkulla 17 hours ago||
The issue is that it is not enforced. My version of My IP will tell you if 'Do Not track' and 'Global Privacy Control' are set by your browser but it is up to the website to honour your requests. Check if your browser is sending them by visiting: https://fshot.org/utils/myip.php
mmooss 16 hours ago|
That's great, but isn't DNT deprecated?
jamietanna 16 hours ago||
Was wondering if there was a list of known opt outs as we are looking at a default opt out in Renovate[0] - we'll also look to set `DO_NOT_TRACK`

[0]: https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/discussions/42932

Ichaelus 7 hours ago|
Here is a non comprehensive list of mine: https://makandracards.com/makandra/624560-disable-telemetry-...
jamietanna 6 hours ago||
Ooh thanks!
binaryturtle 17 hours ago||
This is just sad. Luckily I do not use any of the listed programs. I threw out Homebrew many years ago when they started this nonsense.

The only tool I have installed currently that does %/"($& like this is Deno (required for yt-dlp now). It phones happily home even if you wrap it into a wrapper script that forces the env variable (in no way I'll pollute my default environment with stuff like this):

    $ cat /usr/local/bin/deno
    #!/bin/sh
    exec env DENO_NO_UPDATE_CHECK=1 /usr/local/packages/deno/latest/bin/deno "$@"

I wish bad dreams to whoever puts such crap into their software! Thankfully I have Little Snitch to catch most of those kind of invasions of my privacy.
koala-news 5 hours ago||
This goes against user experience, doesn't it?
Jaxan 4 hours ago|
Why?
Bender 15 hours ago||
Domain blocking is my preference but I would imagine that trackers probably also try to weed out data that contains racism, sexism, lewdness or some combination thereof. People can get very creative with ASCII art. AI surely does not accept such things.
buybackoff 17 hours ago||
No, it should be a required (by law) opt-in TRACK_ME_I_DO_NOT_CARE_OR_AM_A_TEAPOT=418.

The proposed way just normalizes tracking.

jonhohle 14 hours ago|
And setting that env var should require a notarized consent to track contract that has an expiration of at most 60 days and has penalties of jail time for any data related to that telemetry, anonymized or not that is shared with a third party, for any reason, including but not limited to fulfilling the service the business purports to be providing.

It should be much more difficult to collect data than to opt out of collection.

huksley 18 hours ago||
Also this, we disable it when building or deploying apps in DollarDeploy

export SEMGREP_SEND_METRICS=off export COLLECT_LEARNINGS_OPT_OUT=true export STORYBOOK_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1 export NEXT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1 export SLS_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1 export SLS_NOTIFICATIONS_MODE=off export DISABLE_OPENCOLLECTIVE=true export NPM_CONFIG_UPDATE_NOTIFIER=false

dubious2 11 hours ago|
I'm old enough to remember Nancy Reagan just say no!I think this has the same effect.
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