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by Deimorz 2437 days ago
DNT was a failure that shouldn't be depended on for anything.

Safari has already removed it in version 12.1 (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari_release_not...), so if that's the only opt-out mechanism there's no way for Safari users to make that choice. That probably includes all iOS users, since all iOS browsers just wrap Safari.

I wouldn't be surprised to see other browsers remove it eventually as well. Like Apple says, it ended up doing the exact opposite of what it was supposed to -- almost nobody obeys it anyway, and it hurts the privacy of people that try to use it by contributing an uncommon factor to their browser fingerprint.