It means nothing. DNT is being ignored by most websites anyway and is also a fingerprinting metric.
The DNT flag amounted to the equivalent of a digital pinky swear from website operators. Oh they still tracked you? That’s too bad… South Park’s rubbing nipples meme
DNT didn’t do shit anyway. If you’re relying upon corporations like Google to not track you just because you asked nicely, then you have a very naive view of how much they actually give a shit about your wishes.
Worse, setting DNT makes your browser more unique for fingerprinting.
There is one website, that I know of, that does not ignore DNT: geizhals. Also in germany you cannot ignore DNT by law (most still do).
European privacy laws go brrrr
They also removed the right click option “copy (text) without site tracking “
It’s less they removed the option, and moreso that they renamed it to Copy Clean Link. Functionally, it stayed the same. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/135.0a1/releasenotes/
They probably were paid to change the terminology, it doesn’t look good for any website when you have the browser saying copy without tracking the URL that’s copied is half the size
I don’t quite get what changing the name would achieve in this scenario? I might be misunderstanding what you mean though. That being said, this was a suggested change 2 months ago within the community, so very unlikely to be any motivation behind it other than genuine change to clarify the feature. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1924493
Changes it to a more friendlier term, it saying copy without tracking is acknowledging that the site is using tracking data, where would the new terminology if you don’t know what those parameters are then you just think it’s a shorter link.
Neither changes the fact that it’s happening in the first place, but one is directly addressing the elephant in the room where one is hiding under the rug
That being said reading that link, I do agree with some of the complaints that they have, but I still think it should have remained the same because that’s exactly what the system does. It best attempts to remove tracking information from the URI
But they’re getting new branding;)
