{"id":893,"date":"2011-11-15T11:43:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T19:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/privacy\/?p=169"},"modified":"2016-01-19T14:20:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T22:20:03","slug":"deeper-discussion-of-our-decision-on-dnt-defaults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/netpolicy\/2011\/11\/15\/deeper-discussion-of-our-decision-on-dnt-defaults\/","title":{"rendered":"Deeper Discussion of our Decision on DNT Defaults"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_170\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/netpolicy\/files\/2011\/11\/red-pill-blue-pill.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-170 \" title=\"red-pill-blue-pill\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/privacy\/files\/2011\/11\/red-pill-blue-pill.jpg\" alt=\"A choice between a red pill and a blue pill.\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/netpolicy\/files\/2011\/11\/red-pill-blue-pill.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/netpolicy\/files\/2011\/11\/red-pill-blue-pill-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#039;s not a binary choice.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>DNT is often compared to other browser security and privacy features, such as malware and phishing protection. This reveals a common misunderstanding about what sort of feature DNT is and what it does. That&#8217;s why we think we should shed a little more light on Firefox&#8217;s DNT defaults.<\/p>\n<p>DNT is different. It doesn&#8217;t take away a broken feature, or fix a bug. It adds a new feature that&#8217;s incredibly important: the user&#8217;s voice. We ship DNT by default: the feature is there, and you can use it if you want. When DNT is off, it doesn&#8217;t mean &#8220;please track me&#8221;, it means that the user hasn&#8217;t told the browser their choice yet.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DNT:0 means &#8220;I consent to being tracked&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>DNT:1 means &#8220;I object to being tracked&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>If the signal is not sent, we are not communicating <em>either<\/em> of these things.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We ship Firefox with DNT in the &#8220;don&#8217;t tell sites anything&#8221; configuration because initially, that&#8217;s all we know. Until the user tells us what to send, we don&#8217;t want to put words into their mouth. Neither Mozilla nor Firefox controls what sort of privacy protection sites give their users. Those decisions are up to sites and to regulators.<\/p>\n<p>DNT allows for a conversation between the person sitting behind the keyboard and they site that they want to visit. If DNT is on by default, then it&#8217;s not a conversation. For DNT to be effective, it must actually represent the user&#8217;s voice.<\/p>\n<p>We introduced DNT to do just that: to give users a voice and let them tell sites that they don\u2019t want to be tracked. We did this before knowing exactly how sites and advertisers would respond. Right now, DNT is best explained as a vote for privacy, not a magic &#8220;keep me safe&#8221; button.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNT is often compared to other browser security and privacy features, such as malware and phishing protection. This reveals a common misunderstanding about what sort of feature DNT is and &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/netpolicy\/2011\/11\/15\/deeper-discussion-of-our-decision-on-dnt-defaults\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":323,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4503,847],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Deeper Discussion of our Decision on DNT Defaults - Open Policy &amp; Advocacy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/netpolicy\/2011\/11\/15\/deeper-discussion-of-our-decision-on-dnt-defaults\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Tom Lowenthal\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/netpolicy\/2011\/11\/15\/deeper-discussion-of-our-decision-on-dnt-defaults\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/netpolicy\/2011\/11\/15\/deeper-discussion-of-our-decision-on-dnt-defaults\/\",\"name\":\"Deeper Discussion of our Decision on DNT Defaults - Open Policy &amp; 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