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by John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc.

Apple Dumping “Do Not Track” from Safari

February 27, 2019

I previously wrote about how worthless it is to enable the “Do Not Track” feature of your browser. The vast majority of websites ignore the ‘do not track’ request. In a post on How-To Geek, the ‘do not track’ feature can have the opposite effect. “In fact, Do Not Track has been used to track people. If you’ve enabled Do Not Track, it’s an extra piece of information about you that can be tracked. Advertisers could direct privacy-related advertisements your way, for example.”

Safari was one of the first browsers to add an “Ask websites not to track me” button to its Privacy settings. Apple is removing the option in Safari 12.1. How to stop users from using Do Not Track? Take the option away. Instead, Apple is going with its Intelligent Tracking Protection according to a post on Macworld.

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