QUESTION: What exactly does turning on the “Do Not Track” in my browser actually do?ANSWER: It’s no secret that we’re all being tracked relentlessly online, so the “Do Not Track” setting in your ...

Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac Safari’s “Do Not Track” setting was supposed to protect us from advertisers following us from website to website but it never worked like it was supposed to and Apple has ...

The Federal Trade Commission proposed to Congress Thursday a "Do Not Track" option that gives consumers the ability to opt out of being tracked online by advertisers and e-commerce sites when surfing ...

Most web browsers currently have a feature called “Do Not Track” hidden in settings. In the case of Mozilla’s Firefox browser, Windows Report has spotted a change in the upcoming version — the setting ...

It might not ever be fully dead, but Firefox calling it quits on Do Not Track (DNT) is a strong indication that an idealistic movement born more than 13 years ago has truly reached the end of its ...

Q: What exactly does turning on the “Do Not Track” in my browser actually do? A: It’s no secret that we’re all being tracked relentlessly online, so the “Do Not Track” setting in your browser sounded ...

Mozilla’s Firefox web browser was the first to implement a Do Not Track option, and now appears to be the first browser to remove it. This option would send a website a request that a user didn’t wish ...

Mozilla has removed support for Do Not Track from Firefox, with the company stating that it was a setting that was largely ignored by websites anyway. More than this, Mozilla believes that Do Not ...

Fellow Ryan Calo discusses the potential future of a new “do not track” software, which was created by a pair of Stanford researchers: As a government agency pushes for a “do not track” mechanism to ...

In brief: An early adopt of a well intentioned web privacy feature will soon be bidding it farewell. Mozilla is planning to remove its Do Not Track feature from future versions of its Firefox web ...