1169940 - Ask users to enable tracking protection when they enable DNT

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1108013

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Dave W.]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
Build ID: 20150513174244




Expected results:

We should tell users that some websites may not respect DNT and encourage them to enable tracking protection.

Comment 1

[Gingerbread Man]

What do you mean by “tracking protection”?

There's already a “Learn more” link below the DNT option, which points to an article with a section titled, “Will companies honor my Do Not Track preference?”

Comment 2

[Dave W.]

(In reply to Gingerbread Man from comment #1)
> What do you mean by “tracking protection”?
> 
> There's already a “Learn more” link below the DNT option, which points to an
> article with a section titled, “Will companies honor my Do Not Track
> preference?”

Tracking Protection is a new Firefox feature that prevents websites from tracking the users. It works in same way as Disconnect or Ghostery. Read more at http://monica-at-mozilla.blogspot.co.nz/2014/11/tracking-protection-in-firefox.html.