Let's reconsider some more applications installed by default

[Michael Catanzaro]

On Sat, 2015-08-29 at 08:27 +0100, Richard Turner wrote:
> The DNT header absolutely should not be set by default, that
> completely
> goes against the grain of the header's design. Having DNT=1 set by
> default
> in Internet Explorer is what prompted networks to start ignoring it
> for
> that browser. The point is that is supposed to be a conscious user
> preference.
> 
> Cheers,
> R

Many advertising companies (I believe most, but who knows) are going to
use the DNT header as another data point for tracking you. I don't
expect many sites to respect the header in general but selectively
ignore the header for only Epiphany users, because sites don't care
about Epiphany. :) Anyway, we are moving towards private-by-default,
rather than making the user think about it and choose whether to be
tracked or not. And I am turning on adblock by default right now :)
which is rather more serious for the advertising companies, IMO.