<story><title>Twitter abandons &apos;Do Not Track&apos; privacy protection</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-abandons-do-not-track-privacy-protection/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xg15</author><text>Ok, honestly, was DNT ever more than a smoke grenade for muddying the privacy discussion? The standard always relied on every single shady data collector out there to act against their core interest, facing not even the risk of detection (let alone punishment) if they don&amp;#x27;t comply, all just because you asked them nicely. You might as well carry a &amp;quot;do not rob me&amp;quot; card in your wallet.&lt;p&gt;Was there ever a honest belief by anyone (except the Ayn Rand fanboys) this could work?</text></comment>
<story><title>Twitter abandons &apos;Do Not Track&apos; privacy protection</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-abandons-do-not-track-privacy-protection/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>malikNF</author><text>DNT made sense only in a world where there would be some sort of law to back it up.&lt;p&gt;I actually had my adblocker turned off on websites I knew at least tried to respect DNT (reddit, medium and twitter), guess twitter&amp;#x27;s getting completely adblocked now.</text></comment>