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+ along with Privacy Browser Android. If not, see
A few years ago the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) created a mechanism for browsers to inform web servers that they would not like to be tracked. This is accomplished by including a DNT (Do Not Track) header with web requests.
-The DNT header doesn't really provide any privacy because most web servers ignore it. For example, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook all ignore at least some DNT headers.
+The DNT header doesn't really provide any privacy because most web servers ignore it. For example, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook all ignore at least some DNT headers. + Beginning with version 3.8, Privacy Browser no longer has the option to send a DNT header.
Privacy Browser removes tracking ID sections of URLs, like ?utm_
from Google Analytics and
- ?fbclick=
from Facebook. URL modification can be turned off in the settings if it is causing issues.
Privacy Browser removes tracking IDs and AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) redirects from URL queries. + There is a blog post that is updated with the current list of modifications. + URL modification can be turned off in the settings if it is causing issues.
+ + +Google programmed Androidâs WebView to send an X-Requested-With header with every request.
+ The value of the X-Requested-With header is set to the application ID, which in the case of Privacy Browser is com.stoutner.privacybrowser.standard
.
+ This can be disabled using WebView's DevTools.