Do_not_track Reignition Debate

Welcome bakc HN, to another round, a couple of years later. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27746587 happened only 10 months ago. Let's poll the audience:

1) DO_NOT_TRACK or no?

2) op? polemicist or avant-garde privacy advocate?

3) personal opinion: Almost no one in the original thread mentioned that an app that has opt-out privacy policy defaults would be unlikely to change their practices. And if we read what the op says repeatedly, "opt-out" mechanisms are inherently stupid, then this flag is obsolete. I.e. respectful providers never opt-out privacy tools, and they can always create an "opt-in" flag, which is conceptually and fundamentally not compatible with the "opt-out" flag $DO_NOT_TRACK. The op says "opt-out" is invalid, and then invents the primordial "opt-out" flag, but not one comment can see through this logical inconvenience. HN is fun to poll opinions but in terms of finding vetted thinking its no better than anything else.

Everyone wants to rant about how they "would" do something, and people who try "to do" anything are ridiculed, but, between pointing out a simple logical fallacy and psychoanalysing a random poster to the point of determining whether his standards crusade measured up, we lost a debate over opt-in vs opt-out and all opt-out adherents shilled their way through a lost cause of "standards" worshipers.

Sad affairs in these late hours.