Seen on Risky Biz News by Catalin Cimpanu:
Firefox to remove DNT: Mozilla will remove the DoNotTrack feature from Firefox next year. The feature was introduced in 2011 as a way for users to tell websites not to track them. Mozilla says it’s removing the feature because most websites don’t respect it. DoNotTrack will be removed with Firefox 135, scheduled to be released in early February.
Mozilla’s blog explains:
Starting in Firefox version 135, the “Do Not Track” checkbox will be removed. Many sites do not respect this indication of a person’s privacy preferences, and, in some cases, it can reduce privacy.
If you wish to ask websites to respect your privacy, you can use the “Tell websites not to sell or share my data” setting. This option is built on top of the Global Privacy Control (GPC). GPC is respected by increasing numbers of sites and enforced with legislation in some regions. To learn more about this, please read Global Privacy Control.
Firefox lets you tell websites that you do not want them to track your browsing behavior.
Read more at Mozilla.org.