about the "Do Not Track" signal

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Masaru Suzuqi -under review-
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Hello everyone :) I want to add some words to the "Do Not Track" signal of Abrowser or Tor browser. For example, "Do Not Track, because really creepy", or "Do Not Track, ****ot", "Do Not Track, fuck ***", etc. Anonymity is not so important for me. Can I do that? if I can, how to do that? I think it might be a good start point of exercising freedom 2 or 3 I forget.

If I send this signal, then someone should receive it. How do they recognize that they received the signal? By checking the number of signals generally? or something else? I mean, even if I added some words to the signal, would not they read it? I read this:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-turn-do-not-track-feature

But I did not really understand what I wanted to know.

Magic Banana

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A rejoint: 07/24/2010

By specification, the DNT header field only admits two possible values: "0" or "1" (or no such header if the user has not expressed any preference): https://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/#dnt-header-field

Extensions were thought up though: https://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/#dnt-extensions

However, none has ever been defined. And none will ever be defined because the DNT specification was retired in January 2019.

Also, normal human beings do not read HTTP headers. And machines do not understand free text. You had better write emails to administrators of websites with trackers.

Masaru Suzuqi -under review-
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Thanks for your replies.
I think maybe everyone has the only same preference for tracking and advertising or such kind of activities, though. But there might be some lonely people who like to be tracked then receive advertisements that are tailored to their preference. I want an one click anonymous disposal email application or addon or something that sends an email to tell them my preference, or rather disgust with some sample forms automatically when it detects a creepy activity.
So does that mean that Firefox will drop the function in the near future??

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I want an one click anonymous disposal email application or addon or something that sends an email to tell them my preference, or rather disgust with some sample forms automatically when it detects a creepy activity.

If you use a Firefox derivative, GNU LibreJS provides a button "Complain to site owner", which searches for (not always existing) contact info on the page, so that you can easily file a complaint: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/3538211/gnu_librejs-7.20.2-an+fx.xpi

The button "Complain to site owner" appears when you click on LibreJS' icon, on the tool bar of the browser, only if the extension detected nonfree nontrivial JavaScript on the Web page. That includes all websites with trackers, I believe.

Masaru Suzuqi -under review-
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I see. But I have never succeeded in installing LibreJS. I might use it in the future when million people started to complain about tracking. I think we should "sell" our personal information. IOW, they should buy our information. Cannot a license or something let us have the valid right?

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I have never succeeded in installing LibreJS.

Click on the link I gave you, or the one behind Jaret's link.

I think we should "sell" our personal information.

Not a good idea: the right to privacy should be fundamental, not something that only the wealthiest can afford.

wfsyhf
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> I have never succeeded in installing LibreJS
What do you mean? If you are using midori or abrowser you can install it with one click. I don't see any complicated in it.

Masaru Suzuqi -under review-
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I don't remember well why I could not do it. I didn't see any complicated neither. Maybe when I clicked "install extension" of this page:

https://trisquel.info/en/browser/addons/librejs

it always showed only a blank page in a browser's tab. But I don't remember well.

andyprough
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>I want an one click anonymous disposal email application or addon or something that sends an email to tell them my preference, or rather disgust with some sample forms automatically when it detects a creepy activity.

One add-on that helps a lot against tracking is called NeatURL. It works to strip out the tracking parts of URLs. It is GPL, but the only way I know to add it to abrowser is from the Firefox add-ons site, and I don't think we are supposed to recommend that add-ons site.

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I do not think giving a link to install a specific free software add-on means endorsing the proprietary add-ons on that same site: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/3557562/neat_url-5.0.0-an+fx.xpi

Link Cleaner+ does the same, as far as I understand: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/3548819/link_cleaner-1.7-an+fx.xpi

Masaru Suzuqi -under review-
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I succeeded in installing LibreJS from the link Jaret gave me. Immediately I tried to send a complaint to the Krita team, but it could not find a contact. I think it is mentioned in Whois though.

> Not a good idea: the right to privacy should be fundamental, not something that only the wealthiest can afford.

There is no guarantee for them too. The decisive division between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie is whether or not you have something to sell other than your own labor force. If we can sell your personal information, I think we should sell it. Perhaps it is the first time that the working class has acquired something to sell other than the labor force. Privacy should be a fundamental right, but if, as a result, you sell it aggressively and no one buys it, it means you actually got privacy to some degree. Is it difficult to create a mechanism that forces them to purchase our personal information?

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Citing the Quadrature du Net, which expresses itself better than I would:

Admitting that consent could be an economic compensation would mean that fundamental freedoms may be attributed according to economic criteria. Privacy would become a luxury affordable only to the ‘happy few’.

Outside the communications sector, some practices are typical examples for this. This includes loyalty cards, offered by big stores and that allow companies to establish detailed profiles from their customers' daily consumption, hence characterizing their sheer intimacy. Whereas the ‘happy few’ can afford to escape this surveillance by not using these cards, the poorest people often have no choice. Refusing to submit to such surveillance would deprive them from promotions often necessary to close their budget. They cannot afford the ‘luxury’ of privacy nor the ‘ease’ of not being under surveillance. However, such things are not luxury nor ease but fundamental freedoms.

For this reason, and to fight against such abuses, these fundamental freedoms have all been taken off the market: physical integrity (Art 3(2)(b) of the EU Charter prohibits the sale of one’s own body parts), the freedom of decision over one’s own body (Art 5 of the Charter prohibits submission to forced labour), the freedom to marry, to vote, etc. This should be no different when it comes to privacy and to the confidentiality of communications.

Section "Freedoms have no economical value" of https://www.laquadrature.net/files/lqdn_positions_eprivacy_01_09_2017.pdf