Does it mean that all people who are insufficiently computer literate to know what “Do Not Track” means actually consent to tracking?
The idea of “Do Not Track” is that websites should give people content for free and they shouldn’t be able to count how much of which articles the give out for free.
Calling the idea that free websites want to know something about their audience to optimize themselves “no good reason” is
I do not want to notify Google or Facebook whenever I visit a page containing their ads or buttons that “yes, this is the same person who is registered at your website as X.Y.”
This has nothing directly to do with whether or not “Do Not Track” is send but with whether or not the browser has cookies.
“Do Not Track” is the idea that your browser should notify the server that the server doesn’t use the data to which it has access to “track” you. Tracking then can mean a lot of things like Piwik counting visitor counts to specific subpages.
Tools like Optimizely that run A/B tests are also supposed to be tracking users and there are post that argue they should ignore users that send “Do Not Track”.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with Lesserwrong running Google Analytics and likely with the default configuration that does track visitor counts for subpages.
In addition you are getting Firefox for free, so someone else has to pay for it and that there aren’t that many ways besides making deals with companies like Google to pay for it.
The idea of “Do Not Track” is that websites should give people content for free and they shouldn’t be able to count how much of which articles the give out for free.
Calling the idea that free websites want to know something about their audience to optimize themselves “no good reason” is
This has nothing directly to do with whether or not “Do Not Track” is send but with whether or not the browser has cookies.
“Do Not Track” is the idea that your browser should notify the server that the server doesn’t use the data to which it has access to “track” you. Tracking then can mean a lot of things like Piwik counting visitor counts to specific subpages.
Tools like Optimizely that run A/B tests are also supposed to be tracking users and there are post that argue they should ignore users that send “Do Not Track”.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with Lesserwrong running Google Analytics and likely with the default configuration that does track visitor counts for subpages.
In addition you are getting Firefox for free, so someone else has to pay for it and that there aren’t that many ways besides making deals with companies like Google to pay for it.