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But incognito will not save you. Your browser can be fingerprinted even in incognito. That's why gdpr exists. Also it's strange how your default proposed flag is in favor of tracking. Why not have a flag that is defaulted to notrack:true instead?



Sigh. Because OP doesn’t give a fuck. It’s right there.

You’re proposing DNT flag. We’ve been there, done that, it failed.

Pragmatically, the opposite flag has a better chance of being adopted, because it aligns incentives - both parties get what they want: the website can track me (and really: some people don’t give a fuck and don’t need lectures on the wrongness of their ways), I get less annoying UI.




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