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> Not a lawyer, but basically the website cannot distinguish whether a DNT setting was enabled by default or whether the user intended to set it so it really does not matter. It must be assumed that the user enabled the DNT setting.

In Firefox you can't even turn it off, except maybe via some about:config thingy, so that's not really an entirely valid assumption.



Of course you can turn it off. Edit -> Settings -> search for "track" -> select "Only when Firefox is set to block known trackers". Job done.


Yes exactly, you can't just turn it off.




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