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by OptionOfT 554 days ago
I vividly remember reading the code controversy around Internet Explorer 10 defaulting to have Do Not Track to be On, and the author of the Do Not Track standard submitted a patch to Apache [0] which ignored DNT when the user agent was Internet Explorer 10. Full story: [1].

[0]: https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/a381ff35fa4d50a5f7b9f...

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/apach...