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> Companies that never respected DNT aren't going to respect GPC.

It depends. While I agree that GPC is technically just a more complicated form of DNT, the major difference is that DNT is 100% optional for websites to honor, which is why they don't, but GPC becomes mandatory for nations that have reasonable laws around tracking. Companies operating in those nations will honor it because there are legal penalties if they don't.

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Does this mean that if I set GPC, companies are not allowed to show me cookie banners under GDPR but just assume I hit whatever their "decline all tracking" button says?

In California under CCPA, it actually goes beyond just frontend regulation and cookie banners, and into the realm of backend tracking management: https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bont...

The California Attorney General ruled that if a user presents a GPC signal, the company should update all of their backend systems to opt out of tracking in the same way as if the user clicked a "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" button.

And similarly, German courts recently ruled the DNT header to be legally considered rejection of tracking (Az.: 16 O 420/19)

Legal backing obviously isn't reason enough for Mozilla to support a feature.

And GPC isn't even compatible with GDPR.

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