Firefox Removes Do Not Track Feature & Suggests Another One

I feel like we're slowly moving to one big informational hivemind (or maybe it's Arcane still talking to me) where nobody has any secrets or privacy, with all the recent techs asking for our data and taking screenshots of our every move.

Alas, I'm bringing more news that you might not appreciate. Firefox no longer has its Do Not Track feature. Mozilla says that some websites ignore the setting anyway, and this can even reduce privacy in some cases.

So what should you do if you don't want to share your info? Well, you can use the "Tell websites not to sell or share my data" setting built on top of the Global Privacy Control (GPC).

"GPC is respected by increasing numbers of sites and enforced with legislation in some regions," Mozilla says, but if your reading comprehension skills are fine, you'll see what the problem is: tracking and selling data are not the same things. 

So if you asked websites not to look at your data before (and they could choose to listen,) now you ask them to at least not share it, which sounds kind of like giving them permission to peek at what you do online.

Well, the good news is that websites are more likely to honor the "do not sell" agreement, according to Mozilla. The bad is they can check out your data any time.

To me, the new option sounds better. However, it feels like we're moving toward breaking all boundaries and experiencing glorious technological evolution, and we know how it ends.

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