[MiddleMan5]

It should be noted here that the Evil Bit proposal was an April Fools RFC https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3514

[Y_Y]

While we're at it, it should be noted that Do Not Track was not, apparently, a joke.

It's the same as a noreply email, if you can get away with sticking your fingers in your ears and humming when someone is telling you something you don't want to hear, and you have a computer to hide behind, then it's all good.

[sebstefan]

There should be a law against displaying a cookie consent box to a user who has their Do Not Track header set.

[vbezhenar]

How is "Do Not Track" is a joke, but website presenting a button "Do not use cookies" is not? What's the difference?

[odo1242]

The goal with Do Not Track was legal (get governments to recognize it as the user declining consent for tracking and forbidding additional pop-ups) and not technological.

Unfortunately, the legal part of it failed, even in the EU.

[cma]

Do Not Track had a chance to get into law, which if it did would be good that the code and standard were already in place.

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

I like the 128 bit strength indicator for how "evil" something is.