There's couple interesting tech stories coming out of Germany, and the first one is a bit of a head-scratcher, relating as it does to the “Do Not Track” initiative.
For those who need a reminder, Do Not Track (DNT) is a browser setting that was proposed by security experts around 14 years ago, to let users of online services tell tech companies to, well, not track them. The big browser makers all added support, but without legal compulsion, online services mostly failed to respect the preferences users were expressing through the setting. It stalled in the standardization process and, for all intents and purposes, ceased to be a thing several years ago.
