"Do Not Track" - does it do justice?

[Teddy]

Do Not Track doesn't seem to be something that works anymore. Mozilla Firefox has it enabled by default for what it's worth. It is up to the website developer or server administrator to choose what to do (or not do) with these requests. Your better off installing web browser ad-blockers/analytics blockers like uBlock Origin on Firefox or others of your choice on your preferred browser. This is about the most you can do short of a VPN (which is what I use most of the time), or TOR or a combination of both (or a VPN provider that has TOR setup on the server side of the VPN connection, NordVPN and others have servers that will do this).

The other option: *drumroll* Disconnect from the internet and pretend it doesn't exist. This isn't realistic for nearly everyone reading this forum or posts. It's become a necessity for nearly everything we do now.
The next paragraph relates to Linux/Windows as a whole on tracking, a bit beyond the scope of this topic but still relevant.

What we do know is that Linux is far-far-far-far-far-far-far-far better at privacy than Windows is (data/analytics tracking/anti-virus submission samples). There are many utilities out there for Windows now that remove the default tracking settings to not track, and incorporate IP addresses and URLs in the operating system hosts file to redirect those bad addresses/URLs to null or 127.0.0.1, essentially ignoring those requests. Still though, the problem then becomes: How do I know that Windows isn't talking at all to Microsoft and sending data behind my back? The answer to this is that you don't. Windows always checks to see that your copy of Windows is genuine. Windows is proprietary and closed-source, which are two big NO-NOs in regards to transparency and honesty of the code behind. Microsoft's Bitlocker encryption is a perfect example of this. Bitlocker encryption keys are now sent to Microsoft in case you lose them (this can be defeated, but again, how do you really know?). Law enforcement can summon Microsoft for that information and all that time that you took to encrypt that valuable information now goes to waste. Back-doors can be hidden in Windows, but very hard to do the same in Linux because of transparency of the code, and all of the eyes looking upon it. There is safety in numbers; in this case it's everyone who looks at/modifies/submits Linux kernel code.