Mozilla will soon remove its Do Not Track feature in Firefox because it says it’s no longer effective at protecting your privacy.
It added the option in 2009 as a way to ask websites to not track your activity online. But it was only ever voluntary, and many popular sites simply ignored the request.
Mozilla will axe the tool in version 135 of the browser, due for release on 4 February. As a replacement it now recommends turning on the Global Privacy Control (GPC) setting, which tells a website that you don’t want it to sell or share your personal data.