<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mintocean</author><text>I always thought the point of DNT wasn’t technical, but to make it impossible to argue either (a) that users don’t really care (many opted in), or (b) that Google et al respect user’s wishes without regulation or technical barriers (they are aware of DNT and its specific meaning and they ignore it). In other words, political maneuvering towards getting the entire industry to accept implementing that technical solution.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Carpetsmoker</author><text>&amp;gt; lobby for a legally binding do-not-track header.&lt;p&gt;DNT is pretty dead, and IMHO was never a good idea in the first place. Opt-outing of invasive and unethical tracking is just weird. What about people who don&amp;#x27;t know about it? Or don&amp;#x27;t fully understand what it means?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s almost like the &lt;i&gt;Hitchhiker&amp;#x27;s Guide&lt;/i&gt;: &amp;quot;Well, you should have visited the planning department in the disused lavatory with a sign &amp;#x27;beware of the leopard&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I wrote some more about it over here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.arp242.net&amp;#x2F;dnt.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.arp242.net&amp;#x2F;dnt.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s my Firefox wishlist:&lt;p&gt;- Open new windows more quickly. Firefox feels sluggish (on Mac) even though it isn&amp;#x27;t, simply because it opens new windows far more slowly than Safari or Chrome.&lt;p&gt;- Use the platform native key store. I don&amp;#x27;t want my passwords stored unencrypted on disk. But I don&amp;#x27;t want to enter a separate master password either. I do want to use fingerprint&amp;#x2F;face unlock on mobile to reveal passwords.&lt;p&gt;- Give me a setting to autoconfirm all cookie consent requests and lobby for a legally binding do-not-track header. Cookie consent was well meaning, but it has turned out to make things worse. Let&amp;#x27;s move on.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox 72.0</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/72.0/releasenotes/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text>True, but is DNT the lesser evil compared to what we have now, which is only annoyance and effectively no control.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Carpetsmoker</author><text>&amp;gt; lobby for a legally binding do-not-track header.&lt;p&gt;DNT is pretty dead, and IMHO was never a good idea in the first place. Opt-outing of invasive and unethical tracking is just weird. What about people who don&amp;#x27;t know about it? Or don&amp;#x27;t fully understand what it means?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s almost like the &lt;i&gt;Hitchhiker&amp;#x27;s Guide&lt;/i&gt;: &amp;quot;Well, you should have visited the planning department in the disused lavatory with a sign &amp;#x27;beware of the leopard&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I wrote some more about it over here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.arp242.net&amp;#x2F;dnt.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.arp242.net&amp;#x2F;dnt.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s my Firefox wishlist:&lt;p&gt;- Open new windows more quickly. Firefox feels sluggish (on Mac) even though it isn&amp;#x27;t, simply because it opens new windows far more slowly than Safari or Chrome.&lt;p&gt;- Use the platform native key store. I don&amp;#x27;t want my passwords stored unencrypted on disk. But I don&amp;#x27;t want to enter a separate master password either. I do want to use fingerprint&amp;#x2F;face unlock on mobile to reveal passwords.&lt;p&gt;- Give me a setting to autoconfirm all cookie consent requests and lobby for a legally binding do-not-track header. Cookie consent was well meaning, but it has turned out to make things worse. Let&amp;#x27;s move on.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox 72.0</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/72.0/releasenotes/</url></story>